Long Island
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- proper noun
- /lɔŋ ˈaɪlənd/
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Long Island
- So I grew up on the North Shore of Long Island, Mills, Mill Neck, outside Oyster Bay.
- Long Island Sound
- Long Island, New York
- eastern Long Island
So what occurs was I go back to Long Island, TNT took my car.
- So what occurs was I go back to Long Island, TNT took my car.
- But I went from public school on Long Island to Saint Paul's in New Hampshire.
- And they were meeting in the courthouse in Uniondale, Long Island, twice a month.
- OK, yeah, I grew up in on Long Island, which is right outside of New York City.
- So I grew up on the North Shore of Long Island, Mills, Mill Neck, outside Oyster Bay.
- This is Eddie Lowe from Long Island, New York.
- You know, our school couldn't have been less diverse on Long Island.
- They moved the venue to Albany, NY, and I'm in Long Island.
- I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month.
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OK, yeah, I grew up in on Long Island, which is right outside of New York City.
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Instead, they take the Long Island Expressway and head east to the Hamptons.
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OK, but it's called Long Island, New York on the front of it.
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And he was born and raised on the East Coast, Long Island to be specific.
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Do you live on Long Island too?
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My mom grew up on Long Island in a big Irish Catholic family.
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We are on the north shore of Long Island and were without power for a week.
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We are 13 nautical miles off the coast of Long Island.
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Oh, Hank, we found the cutest little home down on Long Island.
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I spent my summer vacation exploring the beautiful beaches on Long Island.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Long + island
The name is directly built from the adjective 'long' and the noun 'island', so a learner who knows those words will infer it denotes an island characterized by length. Although it is a specific place name with additional encyclopedic information (location in New York), the basic compositional meaning is transparent and follows common adjective+noun naming patterns cross-linguistically.
Etymology
Long Island gets its name from its shape: it is a long stretch of land east of New York City. The words long and island make a clear picture, so the name helps you remember it is literally a 'long' island.