Synonyms for peninsula
pəˈnɪn sə lə, -ˈnɪns yə ləpenin·su·la

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1. peninsulanoun

   Synonyms:
   chersonese, headland, byland, cape

2. peninsulanoun

   A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.

   Synonyms:
   cape, chersonese, headland, byland

Princeton's WordNet

1. peninsulanoun

   a large mass of land projecting into a body of water

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1. • Land

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1. peninsulanoun

   Synonyms:
   chersonese

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1. List of paraphrases for "peninsula":

   péninsule, peninsular, aljazeera, korean, al-jazeera, jazeera, island, korea, bakassi, skallingen

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1. United States:

   As far as moving troops off the Korean Peninsula, I think we need to stay there, we don't just withdraw our troops, no.

2. Ned Price:

   We have been very clear about what we want to see happen. We are committed to the principle that dialogue will allow us to pursue our ultimate objective and that's quite simply the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, we have no hostile intent towards the DPRK. We have been very clear about that. What we seek to do is to reduce the threat to the North Korea, to our allies in the region, and that includes the ROK( Republic of Korea or South Korea) and Japan, and we think we can do that through diplomacy with the ROK.

3. Bruce Klingner of Heritage Foundation:

   Putting US nukes back on the peninsula makes no military sense, they currently are on very hard to find, very hard to target weapons platforms and to take weapons off of them and put them into a bunker in South Korea, which is a very enticing target for North Korea, what you’ve done is you’ve degraded your capabilities.

4. Lu Chao:

   The stability of the Korean Peninsula and realizing denuclearization are of vital importance to China, china intends to play an important role as a mediator.

5. Andrea Crawford:

   They are a vulnerable species that need all the help they can get, it’s unlikely the Otago Peninsula colony would exist at all without ongoing human intervention, including the control of introduced predators such as stoats and cats.