Island
['aɪlənd]
Definition
(noun.) a zone or area resembling an island.
(noun.) a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water.
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Definition
(n.) A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
(n.) Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
(n.) See Isle, n., 2.
(v. t.) To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle.
(v. t.) To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Isle.
Typist: Willie
Definition
n. the smaller masses of land surrounded with water: a large floating mass.—v.t. to cause to appear like an island: to dot as with islands.—n. Islander (ī′land-ėr) an inhabitant of an island.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are on an island in a clear stream, signifies pleasant journeys and fortunate enterprises. To a woman, this omens a happy marriage. A barren island, indicates forfeiture of happiness and money through intemperance. To see an island, denotes comfort and easy circumstances after much striving and worrying to meet honorable obligations. To see people on an island, denotes a struggle to raise yourself higher in prominent circles.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A place where the bottom of the sea sticks up through the water.
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Examples
- A Greek girl, called Helena, who lives in the Island of Fantasy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There was something to the English peculiarly attractive in the idea of this wave-encircled, island-enthroned city. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But if she does, I am quite sure you will find her sons able to defend their island, even against enmity and treachery. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The question is, can we hold the island till then? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Leave this island before nightfall, or, by heaven, I will have you drowned like the rat you are! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Is this island entirely your work? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This game was brought from Holland by those colonists who settled Manhattan Island in 1623. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Once I have that information, Andros will find out that I neither trust nor like him, and that he will have neither my child nor my island. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I thought I was rather good at geography, but I never heard of the Island of Melnos before. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but an European. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There I was told the island belonged to Turkey, as the Greek tributary islands only extend as far down as Santorin. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- How will you find this island? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This they buried well up on the island, and for three years they lived there in constant hope of being rescued. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When you go out to look at my island, I will supply you with a less embarrassing dress—more adapted for walking and climbing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- My first memories are of the Island of Melnos, where I was _not_ born. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The flora of the Galapagos Islands prove d equally distinctive. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The mainlands or the islands? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Probably the most interesting of them all is the great Robber-crab, which is found on certain islands of the Pacific. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If, then, it varied, natural selection would probably favour different varieties in the different islands. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There I was told the island belonged to Turkey, as the Greek tributary islands only extend as far down as Santorin. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The women and non-combatants were carried to Salamis and various adjacent islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even in the islands where they have settlements, they have very much reduced, it is said, the number of those trees. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In scattered islands and in Papua and New Guinea we find another series of black and brownish peoples of a more lowly type with frizzy hair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some mutton was shipped to me from the Falkland Islands at the beginning of last August; a piece of it is uncooked on the table. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Little islands rose here and there to support the strange and colourless vegetation of this strange world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Her population was chiefly a Mongolian population, with some very interesting white people of a Nordic type, the Hairy Ainu, in the northern islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nay, let it wander among the flowery islands, Where I can see my home and the girl who mourns me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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