islandis‧land /ˈaɪlənd/ ●●● S3 W2 noun [countable] 
The Cayman Islands the Greek island of Creteon an island No cars are allowed on the island. → desert islandCOLLOCATIONSadjectiveslarge/big· Novaya Zemlja is a large island in the Russian Arctic.small/little· It’s a small island, barely twenty miles long.uninhabited (=one where nobody lives)· There are over a thousand uninhabited islands in the seas around Greece.remote (=far away)· I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland.· The islands were so remote that they could only be reached at certain times of the year.volcanic· More than 3,500 years ago, the volcanic island of Thera erupted.· The island is volcanic and has very little vegetation.a desert island (=a tropical island that is far away and where nobody lives)· He was shipwrecked on a desert island.a tropical island· What could be more romantic than a wedding on a tropical island?a Greek/Spanish/Caribbean etc island· Chris told me he was sailing to the Greek islands.an offshore island· The turtles lay their eggs on the beaches of offshore islands.island + NOUNisland life· He had become used to the slow pace of island life.an island paradise· She had booked a beach house on the island paradise of Phuket.somebody’s island home· He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.phrasesa chain/group of islands· Our destination was a chain of islands, sixty miles east of Taiwan.the tip of an island (=the thin pointed end of an island)· We live on the northernmost tip of the island of Barbados.THESAURUSisland a piece of land completely surrounded by water: · We visited the Greek island of Kos.· In the centre of a lake is a small island.isle an island – used in poetry or in names of islands: · The horse carried him to the windswept isle of Bujan.· It is the most southerly point in the British Isles.· the Windward Isles· the Isle of Wightpeninsula a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a large area of land: · There is a coastal path around the peninsula.· the Korean peninsulaarchipelago a group of small islands that are in a line: · He lives on an island at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago.
WORD ORIGINisland
Origin:
Old English igland, from ig ‘island’ + landEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- For centuries, Switzerland was an island of peace in troubled Europe.
- the island of Trinidad
- the Hawaiian Islands
- As Finch approached Howland, she, too, realized how fortunate she was to be able to find the island.
- Flotillas of tabular icebergs and ice islands sail among the pack ice.
- Moles floated like islands on both temples.
- Occasional islands of regenerative mucosa were present.
- Sepulchers face the sea, as on the mainland, but on this tiny island death seems everywhere.
- The morning of our last day on the island is brighter.
- There are beaches of rounded grey basalt pebbles of varying sizes elsewhere around the island.
THESAURUS
a piece of land completely surrounded by water: · We visited the Greek island of Kos.· In the centre of a lake is a small island.
an island – used in poetry or in names of islands: · The horse carried him to the windswept isle of Bujan.· It is the most southerly point in the British Isles.· the Windward Isles· the Isle of Wight
a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a large area of land: · There is a coastal path around the peninsula.· the Korean peninsula
a group of small islands that are in a line: · He lives on an island at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago.
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nouncoterminous, adjectivecouncil estate, nouncountry, nouncounty, nouncounty town, nouncourse, nouncove, nouncrag, nouncraggy, adjectivecreek, nouncrevasse, nouncrevice, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundateline, noundelta, noundesert, noundesert island, noundevelopment, noundistrict, noundivide, noundown, adverbdune, noundust bowl, nouneast, nouneast, adjectiveeast, adverbeastbound, adjectiveeasterly, adjectiveeasterly, nouneastern, adjectiveEasterner, nouneasternmost, adjectiveeastwards, adverbelevation, nouneminence, nounenvirons, nounequatorial, adjectiveerode, verberosion, nounescarpment, nounestuary, nounEurope, nounextraterritorial, adjectiveeyot, nounface, nounfarmland, nounfeeder, nounfiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood plain, nounfluvial, adjectivefrontier, nounfrontiersman, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungeo-, prefixgeography, noungeophysics, noungeopolitics, noungeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, nounglacier, nounglobe, noungoldfield, noungorge, noungrassland, nounGrecian, adjectivegreen belt, noungrid, noungrotto, noungroundwater, noungulch, noungulf, noungully, nounhead, nounheadland, nounheadwaters, nounheartland, nounhemisphere, nounhighland, adjectivehighlands, nounhigh water mark, nounhinterland, nounHome Counties, the, homeland, nounhurricane, noun-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveiceberg, nounice cap, nounice floe, nounice pack, nounice sheet, nouninhabitant, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninner city, nouninshore, adverbinsular, adjectiveintercontinental, adjectiveInternational Date Line, nounisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounisobar, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounisthmus, nounItalian, adjectiveItalianate, adjectiveItalo-, prefixJapanese, adjectivekey, nounknoll, nounlagoon, nounlake, nounlandlocked, adjectivelandmass, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounlat., Latin, adjectiveLatin America, nounLatin American, adjectivelatitude, nounlevee, nounlittoral, nounlong., longitude, nounlongitudinal, adjectivelough, nounlowlands, nounlow-lying, adjectivelow water mark, nounmagnetic north, nounmagnetic pole, nounmarsh, nounmarshland, nounmeander, verbMediterranean, adjectiveMercator projection, nounmeridian, nounmesa, nounMiddle America, nounmidtown, adjectivemonsoon, nounmoorland, nounmorass, nounmountain, nounmountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudslide, nounmull, nounnarrows, nounnavigation, nounNE, neck, nounnor'-, prefixnorth, nounnorth, adjectivenorth, adverbNorth America, nounnortheast, nounnortheast, adjectivenortheasterly, adjectivenortheastern, adjectivenortheastwards, adverbnortherly, adjectivenorthern, adjectivenortherner, nounnorthernmost, adjectivenorthwards, adverbnorthwest, nounnorthwest, adjectivenorthwesterly, adjectivenorthwestern, adjectivenorthwestwards, adverbnotch, nounNW, NZ, oasis, nounoccidental, nounocean, nounonshore, adjectiveopenness, nounOrdnance Survey map, nounoriental, adjectiveoutcrop, nounoverspill, nounpack ice, nounpaddy, nounpalisade, nounpan-, prefixpanhandle, nounparallel, nounpeak, nounpeninsula, nounPersian, adjectivephysical geography, nounplain, nounplateau, nounpoint, nounpolar, adjectivepole, nounpolitical geography, nounpollutant, nounpop., populate, verbpopulation, nounprairie, nounprecipice, nounprecipitation, nounPrime Meridian, principality, nounprojection, nounpromontory, nounprovince, nounprovincial, adjectivepueblo, nounR, rainfall, nounrain forest, nounrain gauge, nounrainstorm, nounrange, nounravine, nounreef, nounreference, nounregion, nounregional, adjectiverelief map, nounreservoir, nounresettle, verbresidential, adjectiveresource, nounridge, nounrift valley, nounrise, verbriver, nounriver basin, nounriver bed, nounRoman, adjectiverotation, nounrugged, adjectiverun-off, nounrural, adjectivesand, nounsand bar, nounsandstorm, nounsandy, adjectivesavanna, nounScandinavian, nounscar, nounscarp, nounscree, nounscrubland, nounSE, seaboard, nounsea breeze, nounseafront, nounsea level, nounseaport, nounseaward, adjectivesection, nounsemitropical, adjectiveshelf, nounslough, nounsmog, nounsnowfield, nounsource, nounsouth, nounsouth, adjectivesouth, adverbSouth America, adjectivesoutheast, nounsoutheast, adjectivesoutheasterly, adjectivesoutheastern, adjectivesoutheastwards, adverbsoutherly, adjectivesouthern, adjectivesouthernmost, adjectivesouthwards, adverbsouthwest, nounsouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivesouthwestern, adjectivesouthwestwards, adverbspeleology, nounspit, nounspur, nounstrait, nounsubcontinent, nounsubtropical, adjectivesuburb, nounsuburban, adjectivesummit, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbSW, swamp, nountableland, nounterrain, nounterritory, nountidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountidewater, nountime zone, nountop, nountopography, nountor, nountornado, nountown, nountown centre, nountowpath, nountrack, nountract, nountrade route, nountrail, nountransatlantic, adjectivetranscontinental, adjectivetributary, nountropic, nountropical, adjectivetundra, nountyphoon, nounUK, the, uncharted, adjectiveup, adverbup-country, adjectiveuplands, nounupper, adjectiveupriver, adverbupstate, adjectiveupstream, adverbuptown, adverburban, adjectiveurbanized, adjectiveurban renewal, nounurban sprawl, nounUS, the, adjectivevalley, nounW, warm front, nounwaste, adjectivewasteland, nounwater, verbwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterfront, nounwaterhole, nounwatering place, nounwater meadow, nounwatershed, nounwater table, nounwaterway, nounweather vane, nounwest, nounwest, adjectiveWest, nounwestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwilderness, nounwolds, nounzoning, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives an uninhabited islandCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a piece of land completely surrounded by water: · Novaya Zemlja is a large island in the Russian Arctic.
· It’s a small island, barely twenty miles long.
(=one where nobody lives)· There are over a thousand uninhabited islands in the seas around Greece.
(=far away)· I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland.· The islands were so remote that they could only be reached at certain times of the year.
· More than 3,500 years ago, the volcanic island of Thera erupted.· The island is volcanic and has very little vegetation.
(=a tropical island that is far away and where nobody lives)· He was shipwrecked on a desert island.
· What could be more romantic than a wedding on a tropical island?
· Chris told me he was sailing to the Greek islands.
· The turtles lay their eggs on the beaches of offshore islands.
island + NOUN· He had become used to the slow pace of island life.
· She had booked a beach house on the island paradise of Phuket.
· He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.
phrases· Our destination was a chain of islands, sixty miles east of Taiwan.
(=the thin pointed end of an island)· We live on the northernmost tip of the island of Barbados.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· the island chain from Asia to Australasia
an uninhabited island· Suppose the economy is not one large, unified entity but is instead divided into a large number of islands.· The greatest resistance to union came primarily from the Gaelic peoples who inhabited the largest separate island to the west, Ireland.· Elba is the largest island off the Tuscan coast but is still small enough to explore with ease.· Tioman is the largest east-coast island, its smaller neighbours are mostly little-developed with unspoilt beaches.· Then, confident that we hadn't missed many, we set course for the larger island of Whalsay.· The largest island in the Bay of Naples it boasts a bustling port, thermal spas and sandy beaches.· The largest of the islands, Majorca, has much more to recommend it than just beaches.· Porto Santo is the second largest island in the Madeira group, and the only other one which is populated.
· As we walked around this pretty little island we were charmed by the friendliness of the local people.· As they approached the first little island, Claude cut down on the power and turned north along the shoreline.· For the Out Skerries comprise a group of three little islands which are conveniently arranged to form a perfect natural harbour.· The handsome park adjoining the palace was almost empty of people but two screaming peacocks on a little island provided company enough.· The little island seemed to float before her in the purply twilight, partly masked by a stand of reeds and cattails.· In spring and early summer, some of the little islands here are a stunning mass of bluebells.
· Damage on all three main inhabited islands was estimated at US$1,000 million.· The nearest hospital is on the main island, and the boat comes only once or twice a day.· The other main islands are named Great and Little Piton.· Okinawa, the main island in the Ryukyu archipelago, is only seventy miles long and seven miles wide.· Tobago, the smaller of the country's two main constituent islands, achieved full internal self-government in early 1987.· Meanwhile Miyako Immigration would send a message about Loi to their headquarters on the main island of Honshu.
· Not once, even in the most remote spots and island hideaways, has Diana forgotten to put on her bikini top.· Despite evidence in the 40s that leprosy was rarely contagious and easily treated, lepers were banished to remote islands until 1996.· Many other botanists have also visited the remote and outlying islands during the period under discussion.· He should know; he was once warden of the remote island of Skokholm off the Pembrokeshire coast.· Bergman was 47 when he met Ullmann, with whom he settled on the remote island of Faro in 1967.· No forgotten outcast on a remote island ever had to put up with anything like this.· Bird's island haven A REMOTE Donegal island is proving a haven for a native bird threatened by extinction.
· This is a small island and tongues are beginning to wag.· A crowd looked down from the edge of a small island of muddy roadway.· This club was on a small island off the coast; it was reached by a causeway.· There is a small island off the coast just there, with the remains of a broch on it.· After sailing all day, I reached a small island, where I slept that night.· Isolated cottage on small Hebridean island off the coast of Mull.· Huemul turned out to be a small island in lake Nahuel Huapi, high on the slopes of the Patagonian Andes.· On a small island like this, that is a very important thing.
· Each time we crossed the causeway over to the tiny island of Reine, we paused and photographed.· Sunrise engulfs the tiny island, dawn all around us.· An animal that once ranged over thousands of miles is forced to migrate to a tiny island.· Sepulchers face the sea, as on the mainland, but on this tiny island death seems everywhere.· It would have filled in the lake that had always separated their tiny island from the mainland.· The tiny island is now a National Nature Reserve, famous for seabirds and seals.· Already the national press and media were gathering in this tiny island.
· The two seek refuge on an uninhabited island.· The new airport was to be built at Chek Lap Kok, a largely uninhabited island north of Lantau island.· It turns the fan at a public toilet on an uninhabited island in Boston Harbor.
· In theory, the whole island could be live and extremely dangerous.· Seawjter in this house meant the whole island had gone under.· Yet many subjects throughout the whole island of Britain retained an affection - partly romantic - for the Stuarts.· The whole island knew how Jesse handled the fish on the wharf at Mackerel Cove.· To the whole island he was Bellybutton.· March 17 is an official holiday when the whole island drops everything to tip their pints and dance to fife and drum.· He has a passion to bring spiritual renewal to the whole island.· Perhaps deities were transported in ships to describe a magic circle of divine protection round the whole island.
NOUN· One very obvious form is the volcanism of island arcs and continental-margin orogens associated with plate convergence.· The second category is closely related to oceanic trenches and their associated island arcs or mountain belts.· Where oceanic lithosphere is subducted beneath another oceanic part of a plate the associated volcanic activity and produce an intra-oceanic island arc.· In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.· Such back-arc spreading is analogous to that encountered behind some intra-oceanic island arcs.· Unless the island arc is subducted it will be accreted to the continental-margin orogen previously formed along the edge of the continent.· Convergent boundaries between oceanic lithosphere are marked by an oceanic trench, a volcanic island arc and a Wadati-Benioff zone.
· Carwyn seemed like a castaway on a desert island.· One person can live on a desert island without leader-ship.· But for the moment, it seems he isn't the luxury most women want to take on a desert island with them.· The witch Sycorax, who died shortly before Prospero arrived, had enchanted the desert island.· If you were abandoned on a desert island, you would have total personal sovereignty to do exactly what you want.· His bookishness became useful when he began to study magic on the desert island.· But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island.· The plan was to fly to the Cook islands, and spend at least three months alone on a desert island.
· The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island, surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings. 3.· Somehow his Volkswagen had climbed up on to a traffic island.· In Bombay, for instance, every thousand people have only 0.1 hectares of open space - and this includes traffic islands.· We round a couple of buoys beaded with cats' eyes; sea traffic islands.· No one ever walks round a traffic island.· This viewpoint today would come from the middle of a traffic island.· I guided him to the traffic island in the middle.· At second traffic island following sign to Beaumaris.
VERB· She promised the community's support and help if indeed the parents and their witnesses had to leave the island.· Alfred Anderson lost touch with the two men when he left the island in 1959.· As soon as the men left the island a thunderbolt shattered the ship.· How happy I was to leave the island!· There have been too many stops on the road of the last twenty-nine years since her family left this island behind.· Only the mountains were left above water, islands rising from the turbulent waves.· Before we left the island for good though we had one last place to go.
· Tamils and Sinhalese have lived together on the island for 2,000-odd years.· One person can live on a desert island without leader-ship.· The people who were evacuated live on islands in the Zambezi.· She lived on an island and slept, she wrote, on the beach.· Besides Amy there were apparently two families living on the island.· If I lived on an island, I would want to know how to swim, too.· The pains of living in an overcrowded island are apparent enough for those who have to travel inside it.
· This type of person continued to visit the island until the 1960s and the advent of air travel for all.· Wildlife enthusiasts may prefer to visit the nature reserve islands of Oxney and Thanet.· In 1695, he toured both the Inner and the Outer Hebrides, visiting many of the islands personally.· For real life, visit Moila, the island of the ivory tower.· We had come to Phang Nga to visit the limestone islands that rear in their hundreds from the bay.· Le Monde of Aug. 21 reported that the Prime Minister was to visit the island shortly.· Travelling further by ferry to visit the islands of Ithaka and Cephalonia is possible from about June.· We were intending to visit the island anyway, so on arrival a week later we called on Tony's coach.
The Cayman Islands the Greek island of Creteon an island No cars are allowed on the island. → desert islandCOLLOCATIONSadjectiveslarge/big· Novaya Zemlja is a large island in the Russian Arctic.small/little· It’s a small island, barely twenty miles long.uninhabited (=one where nobody lives)· There are over a thousand uninhabited islands in the seas around Greece.remote (=far away)· I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland.· The islands were so remote that they could only be reached at certain times of the year.volcanic· More than 3,500 years ago, the volcanic island of Thera erupted.· The island is volcanic and has very little vegetation.a desert island (=a tropical island that is far away and where nobody lives)· He was shipwrecked on a desert island.a tropical island· What could be more romantic than a wedding on a tropical island?a Greek/Spanish/Caribbean etc island· Chris told me he was sailing to the Greek islands.an offshore island· The turtles lay their eggs on the beaches of offshore islands.island + NOUNisland life· He had become used to the slow pace of island life.an island paradise· She had booked a beach house on the island paradise of Phuket.somebody’s island home· He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.phrasesa chain/group of islands· Our destination was a chain of islands, sixty miles east of Taiwan.the tip of an island (=the thin pointed end of an island)· We live on the northernmost tip of the island of Barbados.THESAURUSisland a piece of land completely surrounded by water: · We visited the Greek island of Kos.· In the centre of a lake is a small island.isle an island – used in poetry or in names of islands: · The horse carried him to the windswept isle of Bujan.· It is the most southerly point in the British Isles.· the Windward Isles· the Isle of Wightpeninsula a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a large area of land: · There is a coastal path around the peninsula.· the Korean peninsulaarchipelago a group of small islands that are in a line: · He lives on an island at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago.