island
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- noun
- /ˈaɪlənd/
- We spent our vacation on a beautiful island surrounded by crystal-clear water.
- island and mainland
- island population
- island off the coast
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- 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?
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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.
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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
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An old word for an area of land surrounded by water
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A piece of land completely surrounded by water
A small island in a river or near a larger island
Idioms
Compounds
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An island in New York Bay where many immigrants entered the United States from 1892 to 1954
- 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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A stretch of water between Long Island and Connecticut on the US Atlantic coast
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A large island off the southwest coast of British Columbia that is the largest on North America's west coast
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An island in the southeast of New York City that forms the main part of Manhattan
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A city in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River known for its Union prison during the Civil War
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An island off the coast of California visited for its beaches and natural beauty
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An island in Hawaii that is the largest and known for volcanoes and black sand beaches
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An island at the entrance of Galveston Bay off the Texas coast with an old city and beaches
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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 creamy sauce for salads and sandwiches made from mayonnaise and chopped pickles
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An island in Mexico in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California with rugged cliffs and rare wildlife
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An island in the English Channel near the coast of France that is a British Crown dependency
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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 cotton plant that makes very long, soft fibers grown on coastal islands
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An island territory of Australia east of the mainland in the Pacific Ocean once used as a British prison colony
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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 off the coast of California known for beaches, resorts, and clear water
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An island in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada known for scenic landscapes and Celtic culture
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An island near Juneau in southeast Alaska with many brown bears and dense forests
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A large island off the northwest coast of Wales separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait
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A tall evergreen tree from Norfolk Island often grown as a house plant or decoration
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A large island in Papua New Guinea and the largest in the Solomon Islands group
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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
- Specialized
A pump at a service station that gives fuel to cars from underground tanks
- New Zealand
A New Zealand plant that lives many years and grows on high mountains with white woolly flower heads
A small uninhabited island near the coast of Morocco claimed by both Morocco and Spain
A large island in Cape Verde in the Atlantic with towns, volcanic hills, and colonial buildings
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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.