Noun: peninsula
| Singular | peninsula |
| Plural | peninsulas; peninsulae |
Sample Sentences
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Man cancelling Lisa's inauguration as president: I sentence you to a lifetime of horror on Monster Island. Don't worry, it's just a name.
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[Lisa and others are chased by fire-breathing monsters]
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Lisa: He said it was just a name!
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Man being chased by monsters: What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula. [1994 November 13, Mike Scully, “Lisa on Ice”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 8, production code 6F18:]
Nouns inflected like peninsula
palestra,
sarisa,
samara,
schola,
Banff Springs physa,
exumbrella,
bildungsroman,
turritella,
Sir David's long-beaked echidna,
comatula,
nanoantenna,
retinula,
pyrexia,
mesoamygdala,
planetary nebula,
saxicava,
Bildungsroman,
billboard antenna,
structural formula,
babesia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin paenīnsula, from paene (“almost”), and īnsula (“island”). See: Latin Nouns '
paenīnsula'.