an uninhabited, or seemingly uninhabited, and remote island; also attributive and figurative, esp. (of equipment, cultural objects, or behaviour)…

(See quot. 1611) Obsolete.

= sister island n.

A coral island consisting of a ring-shaped reef enclosing a lagoon. Darwin's theory, now generally accepted, is that the lagoon occupies the place…

An island that floats.

any island adjacent to another or others specified.

an island situated within or close to the tropics.

a man-made island or other structure surrounded by or floating on water.

(a) an island that forms part of one's own country; (b) an island that is one's home or place of birth.

(see quot.).

A volcanic island.

an island of which the formation is due to the growth of coral.

(a) a cap made of thrums; transferred a person wearing a thrum cap; (b) Canadian (obsolete except in place-names), a small island with a conical…

an island beside a river formed by an anabranch, n.

a large island, approaching the size of the continents, or large enough to contain several states, as Australia or Greenland.

An island off the shore of a larger, central, or main island; spec. the inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly other than the main island of St…

‘A floating island, or bed of reeds’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.). Chiefly Norfolk dialect.

an island consisting largely of phosphate rock.