Usually means: Land surrounded by water, three sides.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word peninsula:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. peninsula: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. peninsula: Merriam-Webster
  3. peninsula: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peninsula: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. peninsula, the Peninsula: Collins English Dictionary
  6. peninsula: Vocabulary.com
  7. Peninsula, peninsula: Wordnik
  8. peninsula: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. peninsula: Wiktionary
  10. peninsula: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. peninsula: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. peninsula: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. peninsula, the peninsula: Dictionary.com
  14. peninsula: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. peninsula: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Peninsula (New Zealand electorate), Peninsula (disambiguation), Peninsula (film), Peninsula, The Peninsula (newspaper), The Peninsula: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Peninsula: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. peninsula: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. peninsula: Rhymezone
  20. Peninsula: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. peninsula: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. peninsula: FreeDictionary.org
  23. peninsula: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. peninsula: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. peninsula: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peninsula: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peninsula: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peninsula: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See peninsular as well.)

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noun:  (geography) A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.

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