island has definitions from the field of geography
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[ noun ] (geography) a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

Used in print

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

The episode in which Sancho_Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film .

(Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)

One female , collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua , was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ) .

(Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)

In the Delaware_River , three long islands were overgrown with greening trees and underbrush .

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

On the east_side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East_River that connected New_York_Bay with Long_Island_Sound .

(Leon Uris, Mila 8....)

A tale of a plan to ship all Jews to the island of Madagascar .

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land Virgin_Islands Guam Long_Island Hawaii Ceylon Iceland Greenland Java Taiwan Sumatra Great_Britain Caribbean_Island Ireland Aegean_Island Baffin_Island Bali isle Tahiti Netherlands_Antilles Aruba Montserrat Bonaire Curacao Cape_Verde_Islands Atlantis Saba Crete Egadi_Islands Saint_Eustatius Cyprus Zealand Dominica Bioko Spitsbergen Galapagos_Islands Fiji_Islands Viti_Levu Vanua_Levu Madagascar Falkland_Islands Cebu Capri Lemnos Ischia Sardinia Cuba Saint_Martin Barbuda Cayman_Islands Sicily Samoa Guadeloupe Principe Newfoundland Hispaniola Chiloe Canary_Islands Kahoolawe Tasmania Saipan Wake_Island Bahrain British_Isles timor maldive_islands Man admiralty_island staffa barrier_island Celebes Hokkaido Honshu Kyushu Shikoku Okinawa Ile-St-Louis Corse Martinique Faroe_Islands Jamaica Porto_Rico Maldive_Islands Malta Mauritius New_Zealand Redonda Luzon Mindoro Visayan_Islands Azores Saint_Christopher Nevis Sombrero Saint_Lucia Saint_Vincent Nihau Borneo Nauru_Island Seychelles Singapore Majorca Ellis_Island Zanzibar Bougainville Krakatau Kauai Lanai Maui Molokai Guadalcanal Oahu Martha's_Vineyard Nantucket Barbados Comoro_Islands New_Britain South_Sea_Islands aran_islands New_Caledonia Trinidad sao_tiago_island formosa Papua guadalupe_island barbados ithaca vancouver_island nauru anglesea New_Ireland moluccas Tobago madeira_islands nova_zembla tenerife Bermuda catalina_island Antigua galveston_island Anguilla kodiak culebra vieques cape_breton_island norfolk_island channel_islands isle_of_skye islay mull iwo_jima north_island south_island mindanao bedloe's_island manhattan_island new_siberian_islands archipelago

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[ noun ] (geography) a zone or area resembling an island

Used in print

(Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)

His files , desk , drafting_board and a high stool formed the only clean island in the chaos .

Related terms

zone traffic_island

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 20809
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