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islander

islander

38 2.0
A person who lives on or comes from an island
  • noun
  • /ˈaɪləndər/
translation icon : isleño
  • The Falkland Islanders want to stay British, you know.
  • Pacific islanders
  • Asian/Pacific islanders
  • Hawaiian/Pacific islanders

When you look at Pacific Islanders, it's a nine to one ratio.

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Examples

  • Any islanders who don't live in the village?

  • For the first time in her life, Summer wished one of the islanders would drive by.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • And nothing would keep an Islander away from his island but his duty to the crown.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Sometimes, these Islanders name their babies the day of the week or the season in which they were born.

  • To these Pacific Islanders, he was literally a God.

  • The deck was bustling with activity as the islanders prepared to go ashore.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Many islanders share a strong connection to their culture and environment.

  • The islanders celebrated their annual festival with music and dance.

  • As an islander, she felt deeply connected to the sea that surrounded her home.

Synonyms

island-dweller
vsislander
1 4.4

A person who lives on an island

also includes people who come from islands even if they no longer live there

Surface Forms

islander singular
islanders plural

Morphology

islander = island (transparent) = island + er

This is a regular agent noun meaning a person associated with or from an island.

Etymology

Islander comes from island and the ending -er, where island means 'a piece of land surrounded by water' and -er means 'a person from'. So an islander is literally a person 'from an island', which is why the word means someone who lives on or comes from an island.