Atlantic Isles

English

Proper noun

Atlantic Isles

1. The British Isles; used especially to avoid associations with British nationality or citizenship.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 333:

     Columba or Colmcille (‘Dove of the Church’) […] built an island monastery far to the north on the island of Iona, which remains one of the best-known sacred placed in the Atlantic Isles; he frequently crossed the sea between his various foundations.