island
[noun]
Synonyms: isle, ait or eyot (dialect), atoll, cay or key, islet

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English Thesaurus: island, isle, peninsula, archipelag

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is‧land S3 W2 /ˈaɪlənd/ noun [countable]
[Language: Old English; Origin: igland, from ig 'island' + land]
a piece of land completely surrounded by water ⇒ insular:
The Cayman Islands
the Greek island of Crete
on an island
No cars are allowed on the island. ⇒ desert island

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island
noun
ADJ. outlying, remote a ferry service to the outlying islands
coral, tropical, volcanic | desert, uninhabited | offshore His money is in an offshore island bank.
QUANT. chain, group a group of tropical islands
ISLAND + NOUN chain, group the island chain of the Outer Hebrides
home They were forced to leave their island home and start a new life on the mainland.
paradise the island paradise of Phuket
PREP. on an/the ~ He owns a house on the island.
PHRASES the … coast/end/side/tip of an island The best beaches are on the southern tip of the island.

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island

large/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 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.
sb’s island home
He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.
a 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.

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island
noun
1.
BAD: I was on holiday with my parents on the island Capri.
GOOD: I was on holiday with my parents on the island of Capri.

Usage Note:
the island/isle of + name: 'the holiday resort island of Langkawi', 'the isle of Skye'

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2.
BAD: Does anyone live in the island?
GOOD: Does anyone live on the island?
BAD: I was born in a small village in Lantau Island.
GOOD: I was born in a small village on Lantau Island.

Usage Note:
When island means 'a mass of land surrounded by water', or is part of a name, the usual preposition is on (NOT in ): 'The prisoners were left on a small island, with neither food nor drinking water.' 'Mr Mandela was placed in a maximum security prison on Robben Island.'
When an island is considered in terms of its people, cities, schools, roads, traditions, economy etc, both in and on are used: 'There has been no serious outbreak of cholera in the island for over twenty years.' 'Elsewhere in the island most of these stone cottages have disappeared.'

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island 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 Wight
peninsula 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
archipelago 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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island
ˈaɪlənd
See: safety island

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