Western Isles

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛstənˈaɪ̯lz/

Proper noun

the Western Isles

1. The Outer Hebrides, an archipelago of the Hebrides in Scotland.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Captain: The multiplying villainies of nature / Do swarm upon him - from the Western Isles.

2. A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, the Western Isles Council (officially Scottish Gaelic Comhairle nan Eilean Siar since 1997).

Translations

Outer Hebrides — see Outer Hebrides

Anagrams

• westerliness