island
(aɪlənd )
Word forms: islands
countable noun A2
An island is a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water.
...a wonderful day trip to the picturesque island of Gozo.
We spent a day on Caldey Island.
...the Canary Islands.
Synonyms: isle, inch [Scottish, Irish], atoll, holm [dialect]
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Collocations:
artificial island beautiful island exotic island explore an island holiday island idyllic island inhabited island island of stability island paradise island province island residents island resort island territory island tour islands scattered isolated island kitchen island low-lying island main island man-made island mountainous island nearby island neighbouring island offshore island outer islands reef island remote island rocky island separate island small island tiny island tourist island tropical island uninhabited island visit an island volcanic island wooded island
Hong Kong's airport, on a large artificial island, was built in just six years.
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The oil company is embarking on a 12 billion project to build four artificial islands at the world's fourth-biggest oilfield.
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Around the corner, out of sight of the main house, is an artificial island built as a harbour.
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Yes, it's a beautiful, sunny Greek island.
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The Caribbean is perfect for cruising and offers some of the world's most beautiful islands to explore.
The Sun (2016)
The job was a unique opportunity to work on a remote and beautiful island.
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And you don't have to blow the budget on an exotic island.
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We couldn't afford an exotic island honeymoon.
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He spoke of a long journey and an exotic island filled with mystery, danger and excitement.
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As the struggle between the exotic island's warring factions reaches critical mass, further questions emerge from the tangled undergrowth.
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All very lovely - and a wonderful base from which to explore the island.
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With an indoor pool and spa, and two restaurants, it's a relaxing base from which to explore the island.
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Explore the island in the company of an experienced tour manager.
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The intrepid baboon seems to have gone to explore the island during an unusually dry spell.
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Bikes can be rented to explore the island.
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If you could make up a holiday island, it would probably be somewhere between Hawaii and Jamaica.
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This was, of course, the Canary Islands, but not the holiday islands of coach transfers to all-inclusive hotels.
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What tips would you give to people looking for good food on a holiday island like Majorca?
The Sun (2013)
Things are similar in the Caribbean, where you hop from one idyllic island to the next.
The Sun (2015)
Not that you'll be in a rush to leave this idyllic island.
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Easy access to the idyllic little islands off the north coast is another draw of the area.
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Why not opt for one of the UK's 123 inhabited islands if you want to escape?
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The five inhabited islands had no buses.
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The world's most remote inhabited island is advertising for a mechanic to look after its 125 cars.
The Sun (2016)
Boarding school became an island of stability in my sea of volatility.
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Large isotopes with magic numbers of nucleons are said to exist in an island of stability.
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In general, the half-life becomes shorter as atomic number increases, though an island of stability may exist for undiscovered isotopes with certain numbers of protons and neutrons.
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The half-lives of nuclei in the island of stability itself are unknown since none of the isotopes that would be on the island have been observed.
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An extensive study of alpha decay of superheavy nuclei was performed during the last decade, as a consequence of identifying new elements of the island of stability.
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Set them on an island paradise, and the show gets better still.
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An idealistic traveller learns the location of an island paradise where he finds a number of people have formed their own secret idyllic community.
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A backpacker learns the location of an island paradise.
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After hitting the brine, they all wash up at separate locations on an island paradise, and the game proper starts.
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But party advisers warned him that besmirching his island paradise could play badly with core voters.
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Only one case had been reported in the island province in a decade.
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The population of the island province was 10,167 at the most recent census in 2007.
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The arms borne today by the land islands were originally granted to the similar-sounding island province of land in 1560, displaying a golden red deer on a blue field.
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More than 60% of island residents earn less than $1 (64p) a day.
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Island residents would be charged 25 for taking a car across.
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The storm also left 50,000 island residents without electricity.
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All the island residents participate by wearing folk costumes.
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Souvenir shops began to spring up as a way for island residents to profit from the tourists.
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You have to go on a lengthy boat ride, catch an expensive seaplane or stay at an island resort to dive it.
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The cowardly hound and his friends attempt to solve a mystery on an island resort.
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This could be the best island resort to holiday on for us all.
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The story sees four couples embark on the trip of a lifetime to a luxury island resort.
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She won't hesitate to fly for 17 hours to check out an island resort to which she has access for only four hours.
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The term insular refers to an unincorporated island territory.
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The island territories do not currently observe daylight time either.
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Furthermore, industrial complexes may not be built on island territories in this game.
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The question of the citizenship status of the inhabitants of the new island territories, and their situation remained confusing, ambiguous, and contested.
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In addition, there are six island territories, known as external territories.
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An island tour boat heading towards the mainland came into view below.
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We decided to do an island tour.
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Today's included excursions are an island tour and kayaking trips.
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Treats include snorkeling, scuba-diving, off-road driving and island tours.
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In addition to regular transport, taxis often offer island tours lasting several hours.
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He gestured to the view — the dazzling white beach below, the flotilla of islands scattered across the blue sea.
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Take at least one day out to explore the limestone islands scattered throughout the region.
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The benign conditions: tender trade winds, deep-water harbours for easy anchorage and sand-fringed islands scattered like doubloons, so close that you can navigate from one to the next by sight.
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You'll hardly feel short of things to do on this isolated island.
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An isolated island base with a safe, deep anchorage in a suitably strategic position was required.
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They later find an isolated island which appears to be uninhabited.
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Some atolls, however, consist of one large, isolated island surrounded by a steep coral beach.
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They based themselves at, located on an isolated island in the middle of the sea.
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They sit at the kitchen island for dinner like regular people.
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I painted a picture of the scene, perched on high stools round his kitchen island.
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I adore my house; don't want to be in a pointless mansion marooned on a marble-topped kitchen island, with a tennis court and pool outside.
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Remember when faux-factory lights over a kitchen island were the size of a human head?
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There, stainless steel and concrete tiles add an industrial feel, softened by a yellow terrazzo kitchen island and herringbone oak flooring.
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But there are low-lying island nations whose economies have been totally wiped out because of this crisis, there are places where the graveyards are quite literally floating away.
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The flat and low-lying island measures about 3.1 km long northwest-southeast and 1 km wide, with an area of 2.73 km.
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The low-lying island was inhabited from prehistoric times to 1962, when the last of its permanent inhabitants abandoned it for new homes on the mainland.
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Winds reaching about 185mph and a storm surge up to 6m (20ft) high swept across the low-lying islands.
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Low-lying islands can be completely inundated by storm surges.
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The main island accounts for about 185 sq miles of the archipelago's total area of 203 sq miles and has a population of 45,000.
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You'll keep costs down further by sticking to the main island.
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Seven days buzzing around the main island, via basic rooms and public transport, for only 600 a head, flight and food on top.
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You buy on the main island if you can afford it, the outer ring if you can't.
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It occupies the southwest area of the island chain, including all the western side of the main island.
The Sun
Happy is a tiny man-made island with a bar on the edge of the reef protecting Union Island.
The Sun (2014)
It will include a road going 300 yards out into the harbour to a man-made island for car parking.
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Jumeirah is a man-made island in the shape of a palm tree.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It was hard to tear ourselves away from our sunbeds but the mountainous island, just 12 miles wide by 21 miles long, deserves to be explored.
The Sun
Our tour to the western part of this long, mountainous island will reveal all these and more.
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The mountainous island has a very narrow flat area on the east and west sides where the island's residents live.
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The mountainous island has been uninhabited since 1967.
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There are very few residents on the mountainous island.
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Pick up a picnic before jumping on a ferry to a nearby island.
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He is going to swim to a nearby island where he knows he will be rescued.
Christianity Today (2000)
Boat trips are on offer for those who want to explore nearby islands.
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Our busy little port city of Brunswick, including its suburbs and neighbouring islands, holds about 50,000 people.
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Samantha's work involves frequent trips to neighbouring Caribbean islands.
The Sun (2011)
Most were staying on a neighbouring island.
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This includes wetlands, agricultural land, offshore islands, woodland and coastlines.
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Alternatively, he could look for an offshore island suitable for a settlement.
VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason (2002)
You can walk or swim to the first two offshore islands.
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Such has been their effect that quolls are being transported to outer islands to try to save them from extinction.
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Radio and phone links with outer islands remained down last night.
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The outer islands are cheaper, but life gets more challenging the further you get from the main towns.
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We don't have any information about the casualties or the damage in the outer islands.
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Thankfully, not much has changed on the outer islands in the past 30 years.
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It was originally a reef island made up of two close standing parts.
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The surrounding coral reef islands can be reached by boat and the waters lend themselves to diving and snorkeling.
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Living on the reef was also healthier as the mosquitoes, which infested the coastal swamps, were not found on the reef islands.
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It comprises four reef islands and five true atolls.
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Both are located on small discreet areas of private reef islands belonging to the resorts.
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The birds remained on the remote island all their lives.
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The afternoon is spent doing a coastal swim beside a remote island.
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Since being introduced to the remote island, the mice have thrived in the absence of predators.
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Its walls are indistinguishable from the rocky island.
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At the base of the rocky island, poisonous sea snakes are believed to guard the temple from evil spirits and intruders.
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It stands 62 feet on the top of the rocky island.
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Beyond these lingams, the river stretch of about includes a small rocky island and ends over a fall into a pool.
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It was built on top of a rocky island -- tall but small.
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Were these tortoises, each on its separate island, different species?
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The group consists of two atolls and one separate island.
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Originally the station consisted of two separate island platforms for arrival and departure with tracks on each side.
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Rapid recession of the ice due to global warming revealed this as a separate island in 2004.
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Rapid recession of the ice revealed the separate island in 2004.
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I suggest that this is because it tends to rain a lot on our small island.
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On a small island we'd have to live together.
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We are a small island with a huge population and we will have nowhere to escape to.
The Sun (2014)
The plant grew on five tiny volcanic islands in the far east of the Indonesian archipelago.
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So things might improve, in one generation, on one tiny island.
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There are ten tiny islands but Sal and Boa Vista are the top two for tourists.
The Sun (2011)
The tourist island enjoys wonderful weather almost all year round and inmates have likened being incarcerated there to 'winning the lotto'.
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The tourist island's vital banana crop was wiped out.
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Most notably there you can see a difference between the tourist islands which suffer more anthropocentric change and others which do not.
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With all the beauty befitting a tropical island, it is not surprising that Fiji has drawn a string of celebrity visitors.
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The couple are expected to begin their honeymoon this week on a tropical island.
The Sun (2011)
It might be a peaceful country setting, a calm sea, or a beach on an idyllic tropical island.
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Each summer my mother took us to an uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland.
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A ship was wrecked, and the only survivor washed up on a small, uninhabited island.
Christianity Today (2000)
There are thousands of uninhabited islands which the plane could have reached.
The Sun (2015)
My family would visit the island every year on holiday.
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I definitely want to visit the island again, maybe next time on foot.
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He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island.
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The company pays the trust royalties for the right to visit the island.
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He will visit the island today.
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The volcanic island is just 60 miles from the North African coast.
The Sun (2011)
The remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos are a spectacular showcase for some of nature's oddest animals.
The Sun (2006)
But there is something special about this volcanic island stuck out in the Atlantic Ocean.
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This densely wooded island has two main peaks, each with a height of around 450 m.
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Tufted ducks, mallards, coots and moorhens still nest on a wooded island on one of the ponds.
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Few casualties were suffered due to the firing distance across the river and the shelter provided by the wooded island.
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Beaches carpeted with fine sand; wooded islands set in a turquoise sea; yachts waltzing in the breeze.
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Lower down it varies greatly in breadth, containing in many parts long wooded islands which rise above the flood level, and are often inhabited.
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Translations:
Chinese: 岛屿
Japanese: 島
- Austrian
- Austro-
- auteur
- authentic
- authentically
- authenticate
- authenticate a document
- authenticate the identity of
- authentication
- authentic costume
- authentic dish
- authentic document
- authentic experience
- authentic expression of
- authentic feel
- authentic flavour
- authentic folk
- authentic food
- authentic ingredients
- authenticity
- authentic passion
- authentic self
- authentic style
- authentic taste
- authentic touch