island
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- noun
- /ˈaɪlənd/
:
isla
- We spent our vacation on a beautiful island surrounded by crystal-clear water.
- island and mainland
- island population
- island off the coast
And he finds, you know, a floating island, gets on the island.
- And he finds, you know, a floating island, gets on the island.
- This is my stuck on a desert island product.
- And they fly back off to the islands to leave him alone.
- You're you're on a little island South of New Zealand.
- It's a boy and a horse on an island and it's fabulous.
- And what is the impact on the various islands ecologically?
Examples
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Very tropical on a little island and good community.
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There is a haunted part of the Big Island of Hawaii that few people visit.
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OK, we're here at Centre Island getting off the boat.
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Half a day on this island and four men gone.
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- We live on an island.
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On the fun side of the island.
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The potential for a novel disease to have devastating effects on island species is well known.
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And here we are on the island of Kotal in Thailand.
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Today, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands are part of Channel Islands National Park.
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Today, almost 4,000 people live on the island, three-quarters of them of Polynesian ethnicity.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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A small island that often appears in poems or stories
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An island in the sea where no one lives
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A long narrow sandy island near the coast that protects the mainland from waves and storms
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A ring of small coral islands that surrounds a central lagoon
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A very small island often in a river or lake
A piece of land completely surrounded by water
An old word for an area of land surrounded by water
A small island in a river or near a larger island
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A long narrow sandy island near the coast that protects the mainland from waves and storms
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An island in New York Bay where many immigrants entered the United States from 1892 to 1954
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A stretch of water between Long Island and Connecticut on the US Atlantic coast
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The smaller of New Zealand's two main islands, with more people and separated from South Island by Cook Strait
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A battle in December 1941 where Japan captured Wake Island after American marines fought hard
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An island in New York Bay now called Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty
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A creamy sauce for salads and sandwiches made from mayonnaise and chopped pickles
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A large island off the southwest coast of British Columbia that is the largest on North America's west coast
A large island in Papua New Guinea and the largest in the Solomon Islands group
An island in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada known for scenic landscapes and Celtic culture
An island at the southern tip of Nova Scotia, Canada, known for many seabirds and its sea history
A fern from the Canary Islands and Madeira with soft, hairy underground stems like a hare's foot
An island off the coast of California visited for its beaches and natural beauty
An island near Juneau in southeast Alaska with many brown bears and dense forests
A large island off the northwest coast of Wales separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait
An island in the southeast of New York City that forms the main part of Manhattan
An island at the entrance of Galveston Bay off the Texas coast with an old city and beaches
An island in Mexico in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California with rugged cliffs and rare wildlife
An island in Hawaii that is the largest and known for volcanoes and black sand beaches
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A pump at a service station that gives fuel to cars from underground tanks
An island in the English Channel near the coast of France that is a British Crown dependency
An island territory of Australia east of the mainland in the Pacific Ocean once used as a British prison colony
- Australian
A tall evergreen tree from Norfolk Island often grown as a house plant or decoration
- New Zealand
A New Zealand plant that lives many years and grows on high mountains with white woolly flower heads
A city in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River known for its Union prison during the Civil War
A small uninhabited island near the coast of Morocco claimed by both Morocco and Spain
An island off the coast of California known for beaches, resorts, and clear water
A large island in Cape Verde in the Atlantic with towns, volcanic hills, and colonial buildings
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A cotton plant that makes very long, soft fibers grown on coastal islands
How Big
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word island comes from an old English word īegland that meant 'land by water', but later the French-like form isle added an 's' to the spelling. So an island still means a piece of land completely surrounded by water.