name
Meaning 1
Long Island (in New York State).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-York-City
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Long Island (in New York State).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-York-City
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Long Beach Island.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Jersey
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Vancouver Island.
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Usage: British-Columbia
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Synonym of Prince Edward Island.
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Usage: Canada, colloquial
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Synonyms: Prince Edward Island
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Epstein Island.
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Usage: Internet
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HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.
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Usage: UK, colloquial
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Obsolete form of Iceland.
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Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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noun
A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
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noun
A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.
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Usage: broadly
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noun
An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
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noun
A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
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noun
A traffic island.
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noun
A roundabout; a traffic circle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: West-Midlands, broadly
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noun
A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
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noun
A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
Ellipsis of kitchen island.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, broadly, ellipsis
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noun
An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government
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noun
A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
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Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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verb
To surround with water; make into an island.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To set, dot (as if) with islands.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To isolate.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
a zone or area resembling an island
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: zone
Narrower terms: kitchen island, traffic island, safety island, safety isle, safety zone
noun
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
Narrower terms: Caribbean Island, Aegean island, barrier island, South Sea Islands, Anguilla, Aran Islands, Antigua, Barbuda, Redonda, Bermuda, Bermudas, Bouvet Island, Montserrat, Sao Tiago Island, Falkland Islands, Ceylon, Chiloe, Taiwan, Formosa, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China, Guadalupe Island, Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Saint Eustatius, St. Eustatius, Saint Martin, St. Martin, Saint Maarten, St. Maarten, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Haiti, Hayti, Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, Culebra, Vieques, Jamaica, Virgin Islands, Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, Cyprus, Zealand, Seeland, Sjaelland, Dominica, Bioko, Spitsbergen, Spitzbergen, Galapagos Islands, Galapagos, Fiji Islands, Fijis, Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Crete, Kriti, Ithaca, Ithaki, Egadi Islands, Aegadean Isles, Aegadean Islands, Isole Egadi, Aegates, Lemnos, Limnos, Capri, Ischia, Sardinia, Sardegna, Sicily, Sicilia, Greenland, Gronland, Kalaallit Nunaat, Baffin Island, Vancouver Island, Newfoundland, Cape Breton Island, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, Saipan, Guam, GU, Wake Island, Wake, Nauru, Nauru Island, Pleasant Island, Borneo, Kalimantan, Bougainville, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Ireland, Bahrain, Bahrain Island, Bahrein, Bahrein Island, British Isles, Great Britain, GB, Ireland, Hibernia, Emerald Isle, Channel Island, Man, Isle of Man, Isle of Skye, Islay, Mull, Staffa, Anglesey, Anglesey Island, Anglesea, Anglesea Island, Mona, Java, Bali, Timor, Sumatra, Celebes, Sulawesi, Moluccas, Spice Islands, Hokkaido, Ezo, Yezo, Honshu, Hondo, Kyushu, Shikoku, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Ile-St-Louis, Corse, Corsica, Martinique, Faroe Islands, Faeroe Islands, Faroes, Faeroes, Iceland, Madagascar, Maldives, Maldive Islands, Malta, Mauritius, New Zealand, New Zealand Islands, North Island, South Island, Cebu, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Visayan Islands, Bisayas, Azores, Acores, Madeira, Saint Christopher, St. Christopher, Saint Kitts, St. Kitts, Nevis, Sombrero, Saint Lucia, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent, St. Vincent, Tahiti, Samoa, Samoan Islands, Principe, Seychelles, Seychelles islands, Singapore, Singapore Island, Novaya Zemlya, Nova Zembla, Majorca, Canary Islands, Canaries, Tenerife, Zanzibar, Admiralty Island, Santa Catalina, Catalina Island, Hawaii, Hawaii Island, Kahoolawe, Kahoolawe Island, Kauai, Kauai Island, Lanai, Lanai Island, Maui, Maui Island, Molokai, Molokai Island, Nihau, Nihau Island, Oahu, Oahu Island, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Liberty Island, Bedloe's Island, Manhattan Island, Ellis Island, Long Island, Galveston Island, Krakatau, Krakatao, Krakatoa, New Siberian Islands, isle, islet, Kodiak, Kodiak Island
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ékweh2 Proto-Germanic *awjō Proto-Indo-European *lendh- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland Old English īeġland Middle English ilond English iland English island From earlier iland, from Middle English iland, yland, ylond, from Old English īeġland, from Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą (from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“island, waterland, meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2ekweh2) + *landą (“land”), equivalent to ey + land. Doublet of Öland. Cognate with Scots island, iland, yland (“island”), West Frisian eilân (“island”), Saterland Frisian Ailound (“island”), Dutch eiland (“island”), Low German Eiland (“island”), German Eiland (“island”), Swedish ö (“island”), Öland (“Sweden's second largest island”), Danish ø (“island”), Norwegian øy (“island”), øyland (“large island”), Icelandic eyland (“island”). The insertion of ⟨s⟩—a 16th century spelling modification—is due to a change in spelling to the unrelated term isle, which previously lacked s (cf. Middle English ile, yle). The re-addition was mistakenly carried over to include iland as well. Related also to German Aue (“water-meadow”), Latin aqua (“water”). More at ea.
Across languages
485 source translations are retained for this English entry.