islander
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈaɪləndər/
:
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.
- When you look at Pacific Islanders, it's a nine to one ratio.
- The Falkland Islanders want to stay British, you know.
- So the Islanders of yap, this is like centuries ago.
- We condemn anti Asian hate and stand with our Asian American and Pacific Islander communities today.
- And again, it's just to like talk about and share and uplift Asian American Pacific Islander voices.
- We acted as if the planet was a stone cold player but turns out Earth had a heart and it was melting Pacific Islanders first into the hotter water.
- And so this campaign, Asians for Black Births is like really rallying my Asian American and Asian Pacific Islander communities to be supporting this work.
- So the cargo cults were Pacific Islander.
- So this is interfering with his main mission, which is to protect these Islanders from from the Dragons.
- I swear I spend so much time giving these fellow Islanders great gifts and I get really crap ones back from them.
Examples
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Any islanders who don't live in the village?
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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.
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To these Pacific Islanders, he was literally a God.
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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.
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The islanders celebrated their annual festival with music and dance.
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As an islander, she felt deeply connected to the sea that surrounded her home.
Synonyms
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A person who lives on an island
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.