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shetland sheep dognounsmall sheepdog developed in the shetland islands and resembling a collie
shetland islandsnounAn archipelago and council area of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands; the northernmost part of Scotland and the United Kingdom.
shetland sheepdognoun(zoology) A breed of small sheepdogs, originally from the Shetland Islands.
zetlandnounAn inner southern suburb of the City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, named after Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland.

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zetlandnounAn inner southern suburb of the City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, named after Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland.
shetland islandsnounAn archipelago and council area of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands; the northernmost part of Scotland and the United Kingdom.
shetland sheepdognoun(zoology) A breed of small sheepdogs, originally from the Shetland Islands.
shetland sheep dognounsmall sheepdog developed in the shetland islands and resembling a collie
faeroenounThe Faroe Islands.
faroe(chiefly Scotland) Faroe Islands
shetland islesnounShetland Islands
shitland islandsnoun(slang, vulgar, derogatory, rare) Derogatory name for the Shetland Islands: an archipelago and council area of Scotland.
mainlandnounThe continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.
south shetland islandsnounA group of islands in the Antarctic Circle, lying north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
deception islandnounAn island in the South Shetland Islands archipelago.
northern islesnounA pair of archipelagos off the north coast of mainland Scotland, comprising Orkney and Shetland.
faroesnounThe Faroe Islands.
highlands and islandsnoun(UK) The Highlands.
orkneysnounOrkney Islands
hebridesnounThe islands off the west coast of Scotland, divided into the Inner Hebrides and the Outer Hebrides.
western islesnounThe Outer Hebrides, an archipelago of the Hebrides in Scotland.
south sandwichesnounThe South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
bermudasnounThe islands of Bermuda.
scilly islandsnounAlternative form of Isles of Scilly. [An archipelago off the coast of Cornwall, in southwestern England.]

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