📚 Peninsula, noun. 🔉 /pɪˈnɪnsjʊlə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water. ❗️ Examples: 1. Peninsula is usually a part of the land, bounded to three sides by the sea, and the fourth connected to either the mainland or the island. 2. The island's 3,700 acres of tropical rainforest are a biological reserve that also includes five surrounding peninsulas on the Panama mainland. 3. In mid-winter, the warm water around the Southwest peninsula seems to give them most lightning. 4. Just before we descend to the car park, I look out at the bay and a long peninsula of land pointing towards the East. 5. For the same reasons sanctuaries were sited at the tip of capes or peninsulas or on an island close to the mainland. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic