- (abbreviation I, I., Is.)a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water
- a small/tiny island
- a remote island off the coast of Scotland
- the islands in the Baltic Sea
- the Virgin Islands
- island of… the resort island of Bali
- on an island We spent a week on the Greek island of Kos.
- an island nation/state
- (figurative) island of something No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of suffering.
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographya1- He owns a house on the island.
- The best beaches are on the southern tip of the island.
- They were forced to leave their island home and start a new life on the mainland.
- Fiji is a small South Pacific island nation.
- a ferry service to the outlying islands
- a group of tropical islands
- the island chain of the Bahamas
- the island paradise of Phuket
- Cuba is an island nation located on the northern rim of the Caribbean Sea.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- outlying
- remote
- coral
- …
- chain
- group
- chain
- group
- home
- …
- on an/the island
- the… coast, side, tip, etc. of an island
- (also refuge (British English), traffic island British and North American English)an area in the middle of a road where you can stand and wait for cars to go past until it is safe for you to cross see also safety island
- a kitchen unit with a worktop (= a flat surface for preparing food on), placed in the middle of the room with access from all sides
- Their kitchen is huge, with an island and space for a small dining area.
Word OriginOld English īegland, from īeg ‘island’ (from a base meaning ‘watery, watered’) + land. The change in the spelling of the first syllable in the 16th cent. was due to association with the unrelated word isle.
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