HOW TO PRONOUNCE
hebrides
/ˈhɛbɹɪdiz/
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What does hebrides mean?
proper noun
- The islands off the west coast of Scotland, divided into the Inner Hebrides and the Outer Hebrides.
- A sea area that is centred on these islands.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈhɛbɹɪdiz/
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For an instant, among the Hebrides and just about sundown, I have seen something like it on the sea itself.
Their fleets floated on every known sea; and their herring-busses swarmed along our coasts as far north as the Hebrides.
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The power was at one time very common amongst the Icelanders and the inhabitants of the Hebrides, but it is so no longer.
He thought, therefore, that he had obtained a right to name them; and accordingly he bestowed upon them the appellation of the New Hebrides.