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What is another word for INSULA?

Pronunciation: [ˈɪnsjʊlə] (IPA)

Insula is a Latin word that refers to "an island" or "a piece of land surrounded by water". There are numerous synonyms that can be used to describe insula, including islet, cay, eyot, and ait. These words all refer to a small island or piece of land surrounded by water. Another synonym for insula is peninsular, which refers to a piece of land that is almost completely surrounded by water but still connected to a larger landmass. Other synonyms for insula include atoll, key, motu, and skerry. Each of these words has a slightly different meaning, but they all refer to a small piece of land surrounded by water.
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Throughout the vast extent of the Union there is scarcely a church, an academy, a hospital, or a refuge, in which the piety, the learning, the zeal, the self- sacrifice, of the Irish-of the priest or the professor, of the Sisters of every order or denomination-are not to be traced; there is scarcely an ecclesiastical seminary for English- speaking students in which the great majority of those now preparing for the service of the sanctuary do not belong, if not by birth, at least by blood, to that historic land to which the grateful Church of past ages accorded the proud title, INSULA Sanctorum."
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
The Merkes excavations occasionally show streets meeting at right angles and at least one roughly rectangular INSULA, of 150 x 333 ft.
"Ancient Town-Planning"
F. Haverfield
The city of Asshur had a long, broad avenue like the sacred road of Babylon, but the one INSULA of its private houses which has yet been excavated, planned and published, shows no sign of rectangular planning.
"Ancient Town-Planning"
F. Haverfield

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