island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪlənd/
text: -
note: Indic
ipa: /aj.læɳɖ/
rhymes: -aɪlənd
Forms: form: islands
form: iland
form: ylond
form: ylelond
form: yland
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
ref: 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416:
text: It's only an island if you look at it from the water…
ref: 1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws, spoken by Brody (Roy Scheider):
text: Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles.
ref: 2002, Gordon L. Rottman, World War 2 Pacific island guide:
glosses: A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
examples: text: Despite its name, Barry Island is actually a peninsula
glosses: A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.
raw_tags: in place names
examples: text: The quiet library was an island of tranquility in the noisy, bustling city.
text: an island of colors on a butterfly's wing
text: He was on the ball in a flash, swerving to the left of City’s goalkeeper, Ederson, before shaping his body for a tricky angled finish. He was an island of composure, floating in his 39th goal of the season with a delicate chip into the corner.
ref: 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London):
text: King Leopold, speaking in fluent English during his six minute broadcast, said Belgium stood side by side with Holland "an Island of peace in the interests of all"
ref: 1939 October 27, Deseret News, Roosevelt Reaffirms American Neutrality:
glosses: An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
glosses: A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
examples: text: the island in the middle of a roundabout
glosses: A traffic island.
examples: text: Dunton island, near Birmingham, is one of the most confusingly labelled islands in the U.K.
text: In Coventry, you will often hear people say: “Turn right at the island”.
glosses: A roundabout; a traffic circle.
examples: text: A short, rather studious young woman on noticing him moved from behind an island counter.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 216:
glosses: A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
topics: government
glosses: An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
examples: text: Adverbial subordinate clauses are islands for extraction: "They have a billion dollars of inventory that they don't know where *(it) is".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
Synonyms: sense: land surrounded by water
word: ait
sense: land surrounded by water
word: holm
sense: an entity surrounded by other very different entities
word: oasis
word: island
word: ey
Hypernyms: word: landform
Hyponyms: word: coral island
word: desert island
word: tidal island
word: ait
word: atoll
word: cay
word: chur
word: eyot
word: holm
word: isle
word: islet
word: key
word: reef
word: rock
word: skerry
word: stack
Coordinate terms: word: continent
Meronyms: word: coast
word: coastline
word: islander
word: lagoon
Derived terms: word: ABC Islands
word: Absecon Island
word: Adams Island
word: Admiralty Islands
word: Aegadean Islands
word: Aegadian Islands
word: Aegean Islands
word: Aeolian Islands
word: Åland Islands
word: Aaland Islands
word: Aleutian Islands
word: Aleutic Islands
word: Aleut Islands
word: Alexander I Island
word: Alexander Island
word: Amelia Island
word: Amindivi Islands
word: Amirante Islands
word: Andaman and Nicobar Islands
word: Andaman Islands
word: Andreanof Islands
word: Apostle Islands
word: Aru Islands
word: Auckland Island
word: Auckland Islands
word: Aurora Islands
word: Austral Island
word: Austral Islands
word: Axel Heiberg Island
word: Babar Islands
word: Babuyan Islands
word: Bainbridge Island
word: Baker Island
word: Baker's Island
word: Balearic Islands
word: Banda Islands
word: Bangka Belitung Islands
word: Banks Island
word: Banks Islands
word: Bardsey Island
word: barrier island
word: Barry Island
word: Bay Islands
word: Bay of Islands
word: Bear Island
word: Beef Island
word: Bell Island
word: BES Islands
word: Block Island Sound
word: Blue Island
word: Boatswain Bird Island
word: Boatswainbird Island
word: Bonfire Island
word: Bonin Islands
word: Booby Island
word: Borromean Islands
word: British Islands
word: British Virgin Islands
word: Buck Island
word: Burnt Islands
word: Caille Island
word: Caledonia Island
word: Calivigny Island
word: Camotes Islands
word: Canary Islands
word: Canvey Island
word: Cape Clear Island
word: Cape Cod and the Islands
word: Capella Island
word: Carerra Island
word: Caroline Islands
word: Carrera Island
word: Catholic Island
word: Cayman Islands
word: center island
word: Change Islands
word: Channel Island
word: Channel Island English
word: Channel Islands
word: Channel Islands Beach
word: Chatham Islands
word: Christmas Island
word: Clipperton Island
word: Coalisland
word: Cockroach Island
word: Cocos Islands
alt: Keeling
word: Cocos Islands
word: Coffee Club Island
word: Commander Islands
word: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
word: Comoro Islands
word: Coney Island
word: coney island
word: Cook Islands
word: Cooper Island
word: coral island
word: Cornwall Island
word: Coronation Island
word: Craig Island
word: Cramond Island
word: Cronstadt Island
word: Culpepper Island
word: Danger Island
word: Daniel Island
word: Dead Chest Island
word: Deer Island
word: Desertas Islands
word: desert island
word: Desolation Islands
word: Devil's Island
word: Devon Island
word: dialect island
word: Diamond Island
word: Diaoyu Islands
word: Diaoyutai Islands
word: Dinagat Islands
word: Diomede Islands
word: Discovery Islands
word: Disko Island
word: Dog Island
word: Dog Islands
word: Dorval Island
word: Duff Islands
word: Duke of Norfolk's Island
word: Duke of York Islands
word: Duke of York's Island
word: D'Urville Island
word: East Seal Dog Island
word: Eel Pie Island
word: Egadi Islands
word: Elizabeth Islands
word: Eustatia Island
word: Faeroe Islands
word: Falkland Island
word: Falkland Islands
word: Fallen Jerusalem Island
word: Family Islands
word: Fanning Island
word: Farne Islands
word: Faroe Islands
word: Fergusson Island striped possum
word: Fiji Islands
word: First Island Chain
word: first island chain
word: Five Islands
word: Flanagan Island
word: floating island
word: Fox Islands
word: French Island
word: Friendly Islands
word: Frigate Island
word: Frisian Islands
word: Galapagos Islands
word: Galápagos Islands
word: Gambier Islands
word: Garbage Island
word: Gasparillo Island
word: George Dog Island
word: ghost island
word: Gilbert and Ellice Islands
word: Gilbert Islands
word: Gilford Island
word: Ginger Island
word: Glover Island
word: Goat Island
word: Gosper island
word: Gough Island
word: Grand Island
word: Grand Turk Island
word: Great Barrier Island
word: Great Bird Island
word: Great Dog Island
word: Greater Sunda Islands
word: Great Island
word: Green Island
word: Guana Island
word: Guiana Island
word: half-island
word: Hanish Islands
word: Hans Lollik Island
word: Harp Island
word: Hassel Island
word: Haulbowline Island
word: Hawaiian Islands
word: Hawaii Island
word: Hawai'i Island
word: Hayling Island
word: Hayman Island
word: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
word: heat island
word: Heiberg Islands
word: High Island
word: high island
word: Highlands and Islands
word: hog island
word: Holy Island
word: Hong Kong Island
word: interisland
word: intraisland
word: Ionian Islands
word: Island
word: island arc
word: Islandbridge
word: Island Carib
word: island chain
word: Island County
word: island dispenser
word: island display
word: island dressing
word: island dwarf
word: island dwarfism
word: islander
word: island fox
word: islandful
word: island gray fox
word: islandhood
word: island-hop
word: islandic
word: islandish
word: islandless
word: islandlike
word: islandly
word: island maze
word: islandness
word: island of automation
word: Island of Hawai'i
word: Island of Hawaii
word: island of inversion
word: island of Ireland
word: Island of Montreal
word: Island of Pearls
word: island of Reil
word: island of stability
word: Island of the Blest
word: islandology
word: islandophile
word: island platform
word: island position
word: island rule
word: island silicate
word: island site
word: Islands of Hawaii
word: Islands of the Blessed
word: Islands of the North Atlantic
word: island state
word: island syndrome
word: island tameness
word: island tarweed
word: island time
word: island universe
word: islandwide
word: islandy
word: Izu Islands
word: James Island
word: Juan Fernandez Islands
word: Juan Fernández Islands
word: Jupiter Island
word: Kangaroo Island
word: Keeling Islands
word: Kerguelen Islands
word: Kermadec Islands
word: Ketron Island
word: King Charles's Island
word: King Island
word: Kingsmill Islands
word: kitchen island
word: Kodiak Island
word: Kurile Islands
word: Kuril Islands
word: Laccadive Islands
word: Lamma Island
word: language island
word: Lantau Island
word: Lazarus Island
word: Leduck Island
word: Leeward Islands
word: Lenagan Island
word: Lesser Sunda Islands
word: Line Islands
word: Lipari Islands
word: Little Hans Lollik Island
word: Little Island
word: Little Scrub Island
word: Little Seal Dog Island
word: Long Island
word: Long Island Sound
word: Los Islands
word: low island
word: Low Island
word: Loyalty Islands
word: Magdalene Islands
word: Magnetic Island
word: Maiden Island
word: Maltese Islands
word: Maluku Islands
word: Manitoulin Island
word: Manuae Island
word: Mariana Islands
word: Marquesas Islands
word: Marshall Islands
word: Mascarene Islands
word: Merritt Island
word: Mersea Island
word: microisland
word: Midway Islands
word: Molucca Islands
word: Moluccan Islands
word: Mombasa Island
word: monkey island
word: Montreal Island
word: Moore's Island
word: Morgan Island
word: Mosquito Island
word: Mud Pie Island
word: Mustang Island
word: nanoisland
word: Navigator Islands
word: Near Islands
word: Necker Island
word: Negros Island Region
word: Nelson Island
word: New Siberian Islands
word: Nicobar Islands
word: no man is an island
word: Norfolk Island
word: Normal Island
word: Norman Island
word: Northern Mariana Islands
word: North Frisian Islands
word: North Island
word: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
word: Nuns' Island
word: Ocean Island
word: October Revolution Island
word: Old Jerusalem Island
word: Orkney Islands
word: Out Islands
word: Pacific Islands
word: paleoisland
word: Palm Island
word: Paracel Islands
word: Passage Islands
word: pawn island
word: pedestrian island
word: Pelagian Islands
word: Pelican Island
word: Perhentian Islands
word: Peter Island
word: phantom island
word: Philippine Islands
word: Phillip Island
word: Phi Phi Islands
word: Phoenix Islands
word: Pigeon Island
word: Pitcairn Islands
word: Pleasant Island
word: Pontine Islands
word: porkchop island
word: pork chop island
word: pork-chop island
word: Port Royal Island
word: Pribilof Islands
word: Prickly Pear Island
word: Puerto Rican Virgin Islands
word: Puget Island
word: Quadra Island
word: Queen Charlotte Islands
word: Queen Elizabeth Islands
word: Rabbit Island
word: Raeffsky Islands
word: Rat Islands
word: Red Rock Island
word: refuge island
word: Republic of the Fiji Islands
word: Republic of the Marshall Islands
word: Restoration Island
word: Rhode Island
word: Riau Islands
word: river island
word: Roanoke Island
word: Rock Island
word: Rottnest Island pine
word: Ruth Island
word: Saba Island
word: Sable Island
word: safety island
word: Saint Giles Island
word: Saint Lawrence Island shrew
word: Salt Island
word: Sandwich Islands
word: Sandy Island
word: San Juan Islands
word: San Salvador Island
word: Santa Catalina Island
word: Santa Cruz Islands
word: Saronic Islands
word: Sasignan Islands
word: Savage Islands
word: Savana Island
word: Schouten Islands
word: Scilly Islands
word: Scolt Head Island
word: Scrub Island
word: sea-island
word: Sea Islands
word: Seal Island
word: Second Island Chain
word: second island chain
word: security island
word: Senkaku Islands
word: Seven Islands
word: Shark Island
word: Shepherd Islands
word: Shetland Islands
word: Shitland Islands
word: Shortland Island
word: Shortland Islands
word: Shumagin Islands
word: sky island
word: Snake Island
word: Society Islands
word: Solomon Islands
word: Somers Islands
word: Southampton Island
word: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
word: South Island
word: South Orkney Islands
word: South Sandwich Islands
word: South Sea Islands
word: South Shetland Islands
word: Spanish Virgin Islands
word: Spice Islands
word: Spratly Island
word: Spratly Islands
word: Star Island
word: Stewart Island
word: St. Lawrence Island
word: Sugar Island
word: Sugar Loaf Island
word: Sunda Islands
word: Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
word: Taiping Island
word: Tanimbar Islands
word: The Island
word: third island chain
word: Third Island Chain
word: Thitu Island
word: Thousand Island
word: Thousand Islands
word: Three Kings Islands
word: Three Mile Island
word: Thursday Island
word: Tiaoyutai Islands
word: tidal island
word: tied island
word: Tiwi Islands
word: Tokelau Islands
word: Toronto Islands
word: Torres Strait Islands
word: Tortoise Islands
word: Tory Island
word: traffic island
word: Traversay Islands
word: Treasury Island
word: Treasury Islands
word: Trobriand Islands
word: Turks and Caicos Islands
word: Turnour Island
word: Turtle Island
word: Turtle Islands
word: Union Island
word: Union Islands
word: United States of the Ionian Islands
word: United States Virgin Islands
word: Uotsuri Island
word: US Virgin Islands
word: U. S. Virgin Islands
word: U.S. Virgin Islands
word: Valentia Island
word: Vancouver Island
word: vanishing island
word: Verde Island
word: Victory Island
word: Virgin Islands
word: Volcano Islands
word: Vulcanian Islands
word: Waiheke Island
word: Wake Island
word: Wake's Island
word: Wallasea Island
word: Wallops Island
word: Washington Island
word: Water Island
word: Watson Island
word: West Dog Island
word: West Frisian Islands
word: Westman Islands
word: Whidbey Island
word: wh-island
word: White Island
word: Whitsunday Islands
word: Wilson Islands
word: Windmill Islands
word: Windward Islands
word: Wood Islands
word: Woody Island
word: world island
word: World Island
word: Wrangel Island
word: Xmas Island
word: York Island
word: Young Island
Related terms: archipelago
insular
isle
islet