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Heb·ri·des

(hĕb′rĭ-dēz′) also Western Isles
An island group of western and northwest Scotland in the Atlantic Ocean, divided into the Inner Hebrides, closer to the Scottish mainland, and the Outer Hebrides, to the northwest. Settled by ancient Celts, the islands lay under Norwegian rule from the 10th to the 13th century, when they were ceded by treaty to the Scots.
Heb′ri·de′an adj. & n.
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Hebrides

(ˈhɛbrɪˌdiːz)
pl n
(Placename) the Hebrides a group of over 500 islands off the W coast of Scotland: separated by the North Minch, Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides: the chief islands are Skye, Raasay, Rum, Eigg, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Jura, Colonsay, and Islay (Inner Hebrides), and Lewis with Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra (Outer Hebrides). Also known as: the Western Isles
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Heb•ri•des

(ˈhɛb rɪˌdiz)

n.pl.
a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. 29,615; ab. 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).Also called Western Isles.
Heb`ri•de′an, adj., n.
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Noun 1. [画像:Hebrides - a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland]Hebrides - a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland
Scotland - one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
Inner Hebrides - islands between the Outer Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland
Outer Hebrides - a 130-mile long archipelago to the northwest of Scotland
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Translations

Hebrides

[ˈhebrɪdiːz] NPL → Hébridas fpl
see also outer
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Hebrides

[ˈhɛbrɪdiːz] n
the Hebrides → les Hébrides fpl
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Hebrides

pl → Hebriden pl
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Hebrides

[ˈhɛbrɪˌdiːz] npl the Hebrides → le Ebridi
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Hebrideans are now recognised as perfect for conservation grazing and, being efficient browsers, are in demand to keep encroaching scrub in check on nature reserves all around the UK - including on the RSPB's reserve on the tidal island of Oronsay, adjacent to the island of Colonsay.
The Forestry Commission also uses Hebrideans to help with management in various habitat restoration projects.
On Berneray, a small island joined to North Uist by a causeway, Andrew and Meg Rodger keep Hebrideans on Sunhill Croft.
The press welcomed the arrival of the Hebrideans. Newspapers from that month proclaimed these immigrants to be a vanguard of sorts, the first of hundreds if not thousands of Hebridean settlers who would farm the open spaces and trawl the bountiful waters of that state.
Many critics of Group Settlement in Western Australia actually posited that assisted immigrants, particularly Gaelic-speaking, Celtic, impoverished, degraded, and potentially rebellious ones like the Hebrideans, who could not even muster the costs of passage to the Dominions, would degrade the veneer of Anglo-Saxon racial supremacy that supposedly underwrote the very existence of Western Australia.
To sceptics, the Hebrideans were particularly unwelcome in Western Australia.
Robin, a Tir Gofal project officer, targeted rough grazing Hebrideans because of their potential to meet the demands of the agri-environment scheme.
The flock was established by Meinir, a bank clerk, who said: "Robin shears for Paul Turkentine at Carmel, Caernarfon, who had a few Hebrideans.
This group of Hebridean sheep made their breed debut at the show, exhibited by Robin and Meinir Jones;
RECENT storms have yielded skeletons with secrets of how Hebrideans lived 1500 years ago.
Ancient skeletons revealed
The British Columbia fisheries schemes, by which Hebridean crofter-fishers were to be transplanted to the Pacific Coast, were a total disaster, far less successful than efforts to remove Hebrideans to the Falkland Islands and Patagonia.
Emigration from Scotland between the wars: opportunity or exile? (Book Reviews/Recensions)
When rare wild heather was discovered on their land, instead of reclaiming it as fields, they were able to introduce a a new flock of Hebridean sheep.
'Custodian' farmers offered subsidies

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