Nauru Island
- proper noun
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Isla Nauru
- The phosphate mines on Nauru Island were once a major source of income for the country.
Examples
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Tourists rarely visit Nauru Island due to its remote location in the Pacific Ocean.
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After a brief flight from Australia, we landed on Nauru Island and explored its unique landscape.
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I visited Nauru Island last summer.
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Did you know Nauru Island is very small?
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After a brief flight from Australia, we landed on Nauru Island and explored its unique landscape.
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The phosphate mines on Nauru Island were once a major source of income for the country.
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Tourists rarely visit Nauru Island due to its remote location in the Pacific Ocean.
Synonyms
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A small island country in the central Pacific Ocean
An earlier name for Nauru, a small island country in the central Pacific
A very small island country in the Pacific Ocean that earns most of its money from phosphate mining
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: combining the proper name 'Nauru' with the noun 'island' yields the literal meaning 'the island called Nauru.' This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common place-naming pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Nauru Island One popular story says the name comes from the local word Nauru (or Naoero) that islanders used when they went to the beach, and it is said to mean 'I go to the beach'. So Nauru Island simply refers to the island where people go to the shore.