English > island: 2 senses > noun 1, object| Meaning | A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. |
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| Instances | Admiralty Island | An Alaskan island in the Alexander Archipelago near Juneau |
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| Anglesey, Anglesey Island, Anglesea, Anglesea Island, Mona | An island to the northwest of Wales |
| Anguilla | A British colony in the West Indies |
| Antigua | The largest of the islands comprising Antigua and Barbuda |
| Aran Islands | Three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay |
| Aruba | A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles |
| Azores, Acores | islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal |
| Baffin Island | The 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada |
| Bahrain, Bahrain Island, Bahrein, Bahrein Island | An island in the Persian Gulf |
| Bali | An island in Indonesia to the east of Java |
| Barbados | easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela |
| Barbuda | An island in Antigua and Barbuda |
| Bermuda, Bermudas | A group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast |
| Bioko | An island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea |
| Bonaire | A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles |
| Borneo, Kalimantan | 3rd largest island in the world |
| Bougainville | The largest of the Solomon Islands |
| Bouvet Island | An island belonging to Norway in the South Atlantic near the Antarctic Circle |
| British Isles | Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic |
| Canary Islands, Canaries | A group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming / forming Spanish provinces |
| Cape Breton Island | An island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia |
| Capri | An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy |
| Cebu | One of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines |
| Celebes, Sulawesi | A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia |
| Ceylon | An island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India |
| Channel Island | Any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France |
| Chiloe | The largest Chilean island and the only one to be settled |
| Corse, Corsica | An island in the Mediterranean |
| Crete, Kriti | The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean |
| Cuba | The largest island in the West Indies |
| Culebra | A small island off the coast of Puerto Rico with miles of beautiful beaches |
| Curacao | A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles |
| Cyprus | An island in the eastern Mediterranean |
| Dominica | A volcanic island in the Windward Islands that was once a stronghold of the Carib Indians |
| Egadi Islands, Aegadean Isles, Aegadean Islands, Isole Egadi, Aegates | A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean |
| Ellis Island | An island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States |
| Falkland Islands | A group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina |
| Faroe Islands, Faeroe Islands, Faroes, Faeroes | A group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands |
| Fiji Islands, Fijis | A group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific |
| Galapagos Islands, Galapagos | A group of islands in the Pacific off South America |
| Galveston Island | An island at the entrance of Galveston Bay |
| Great Britain, GB | An island comprising England and Scotland and Wales |
| Greenland, Gronland, Kalaallit Nunaat | The largest island in the world |
| Guadalcanal | A mountainous island |
| Guadalupe Island | A Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California |
| Guadeloupe | An island territory of France located in the eastern West Indies |
| Guam, GU | The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States |
| Hawaii, Hawaii Island | The largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands |
| Hispaniola, Haiti, Hayti | An island in the West Indies |
| Hokkaido, Ezo, Yezo | The second largest of the four main islands of Japan |
| Honshu, Hondo | The central and largest of the four main islands of Japan |
| Iceland | A volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle |
| Ile-St-Louis | island in Paris on the Seine |
| Ireland, Hibernia, Emerald Isle | An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland |
| Ischia | A volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples |
| Islay | An island of western Scotland at the southern end of the Inner Hebrides |
| Isle of Skye | An island of northwestern Scotland noted for its rugged mountain scenery |
| Ithaca, Ithaki | A Greek island to the west of Greece |
| Iwo Jima | The largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan |
| Jamaica | An island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti |
| Java | An island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo |
| Kahoolawe, Kahoolawe Island | An island of south-central Hawaii |
| Kauai, Kauai Island | An island of Hawaii to the northwest of Oahu |
| Kodiak, Kodiak Island | An island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska |
| Krakatau, Krakatao, Krakatoa | A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra |
| Kyushu | The southernmost of the four main islands of Japan |
| Lanai, Lanai Island | An island of central Hawaii |
| Lemnos, Limnos | A Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea |
| Liberty Island, Bedloe's Island | An island in New York Bay to the southwest of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty stands |
| Long Island | An island in southeastern New York |
| Luzon | The main island of the Philippines |
| Madagascar | An island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa |
| Madeira | An island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa |
| Majorca | The largest of the Balearic Islands |
| Maldives, Maldive Islands | A group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean |
| Malta | A strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea |
| Man, Isle of Man | One of the British Isles in the Irish Sea |
| Manhattan Island | An island at the north end of New York Bay where the borough of Manhattan is located |
| Martha's Vineyard | An island summer resort off of Cape Cod |
| Martinique | An island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands |
| Maui, Maui Island | The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands |
| Mauritius | An island in the southwestern Indian Ocean |
| Mindanao | The second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago |
| Mindoro | A mountainous island in the central Philippines |
| Molokai, Molokai Island | An island of central Hawaii (between Maui and Oahu) |
| Moluccas, Spice Islands | A group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea |
| Montserrat | A volcanic island in the Caribbean |
| Mull | An island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides |
| Nantucket | An island resort off Cape Cod |
| Nauru, Nauru Island, Pleasant Island | A small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii |
| Netherlands Antilles | A group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just to the north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands |
| Nevis | One of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis |
| New Britain | The largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago |
| New Caledonia | An island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand |
| New Guinea | A Pacific island to the north of Australia |
| New Ireland | An island in the Bismarck Archipelago |
| New Siberian Islands | A group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Laptev Sea |
| New Zealand, New Zealand Islands | North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific |
| Newfoundland | An island in the north Atlantic |
| Nihau, Nihau Island | The most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai) |
| Norfolk Island | An island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia |
| North Island | The smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand |
| Novaya Zemlya, Nova Zembla | Two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia |
| Oahu, Oahu Island | An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai) |
| Okinawa | The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands |
| Principe | An island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Sao Tome and Principe |
| Puerto Rico, Porto Rico | The smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean |
| Redonda | An island in Antigua and Barbuda |
| Saba | A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano |
| Saint Christopher, St. Christopher, Saint Kitts, St. Kitts | The largest of the islands comprising Saint Christopher-Nevis |
| Saint Eustatius, St. Eustatius | An island in the Netherlands Antilles |
| Saint Lucia, St. Lucia | A volcanic island in the Windward Isles to the south of Martinique |
| Saint Martin, St. Martin, Saint Maarten, St. Maarten | An island in the western Leeward Islands |
| Saint Vincent, St. Vincent | An island in the center of the Windward Islands |
| Saipan | The largest island in the Northern Marianas and the administrative center of the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in union with the United States |
| Samoa, Samoan Islands | A group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific midway between Hawaii and Australia |
| Santa Catalina, Catalina Island | An island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California |
| Sao Tiago Island | largest of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean |
| Sardinia, Sardegna | An island in the Mediterranean to the west of Italy |
| Seychelles, Seychelles islands | A group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar / Madagascar |
| Shikoku | The smallest of the four main islands of Japan |
| Sicily, Sicilia | The largest island in the Mediterranean |
| Singapore, Singapore Island | An island to the south of the Malay Peninsula |
| Sombrero | One of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis |
| South Island | The larger / larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand |
| Spitsbergen, Spitzbergen | islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland |
| Staffa | An island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides to the west of Mull |
| Sumatra | A mountainous island in western Indonesia |
| Tahiti | An island in the south Pacific |
| Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China | A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong |
| Taiwan, Formosa | An island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea |
| Tasmania | An island off the southeastern coast of Australia |
| Tenerife | A Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa |
| Timor | An island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago |
| Tobago | island in West Indies |
| Trinidad | An island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela |
| Vancouver Island | An island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia) |
| Vanua Levu | A volcanic island in the Fijis |
| Vieques | A small island off the coast of Puerto Rico used for target practice by the United States Navy |
| Virgin Islands | A group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493 |
| Visayan Islands, Bisayas | group of islands in the central Philippines |
| Viti Levu | A volcanic island in the Fijis |
| Wake Island, Wake | An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii |
| Zanzibar | An island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa |
| Zealand, Seeland, Sjaelland | The largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen |
| isle, islet | A small island |
| Member of | archipelago | A group of many islands in a large body of water |
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| Narrower | Aegean island | An island in the Aegean Sea |
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| Caribbean Island | An island in the Caribbean Sea |
| South Sea Islands | Any islands in the southern or southwestern of central parts of the Pacific Ocean |
| barrier island | A long narrow sandy island (wider than a reef) running parallel to the shore |
| Broader | land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma | The solid part of the earth's surface |
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| Spanish | isla, islas |
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| Catalan | illa |
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| Adjectives | insular | relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island |
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| Nouns | islander | an inhabitant of an island |
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