peninsula
puh nin suh luh
- n a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
- The majority of male Asian expatriates in the peninsula, who work as computer programmers, hotel managers, road builders and at many semiskilled jobs, suffer little or no abuse.
- Jimena strengthened into a dangerous Category 4 hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast Sunday, and forecasters said it could hit the Baja California peninsula as a major storm in the .
- Of his potential to cause a bloody war on the peninsula there is little doubt, even if such a war concluded, as it almost certainly would, with the collapse of his own regime.