Island

See also: island, Ísland, Īsland, and Island'

English

Proper noun

the Island

  1. (in New York City) Long Island (in New York State)
    • 1972, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:
      Candy came from out on the Island / In the backroom, she was everybody's darling
  2. (in British Columbia) Vancouver Island
    • 2008 December 8, “Grizzlies at home on the Island”, in Times Colonist:
      A grizzly was photographed at Rugged Point near Kyuquot on the northwest coast of the Island in May, close to the time bears emerge from their dens, suggesting it had successfully hibernated on the Island.
    • 2010 October 12, Beau Simpson, “One 'Grape escape' on Vancouver Island”, in Surrey Now:
      And so, my lovely girlfriend Kari and I headed to the Island for a weekend of wines and dines.
    • 2011 July 7, Renee Andor, “His body hurts, but Vancouver Island circumnavigation record belongs to Angus”, in Comox Valley Record:
      Angus felt "fantastic" to have made it around the Island and beaten the record.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Island.
  3. (UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.

Anagrams

Breton

Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɪslant]
  • (file)

Proper noun

Island m inan

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Declension

Further reading

  • Island in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • Island in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • Island in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Estonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈislɑnd̥/

Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe; capital: Reykjavík)

Declension

German

Alternative forms

  • Eisland (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Norse Ísland, probably through Danish and/or Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈiːslant/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Island n (proper noun, genitive Islands or (optionally with an article) Island)

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Declension

Derived terms

Greenlandic

Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Livonian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /islɑnd/

Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Usage notes

Perhaps by error LĒL lists this term as type 127 – vȯņ which has consonant shift in genitive (vȯn) a pattern that is not possible for this term. Like for Kanād the most regular type (135 – āigast) is given in this entry.

Declension

Middle English

Proper noun

Island

  1. Alternative form of Iseland

Norwegian Bokmål

Riksvåpen

Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse Ísland, from íss (ice) + land (land). Akin to English Iceland.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹iːs.lan(d)/
  • Rhymes: -and, -an

Proper noun

Island n

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Derived terms

  • islandsand
  • islandsfar
  • islandsfarar
  • islandsfiske
  • islandshest
  • islandslav
  • islandsmose
  • islandsmåse
  • islandssild
  • islandssnipe
  • islandstrøye
  • islandsull

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǐsland/
  • Hyphenation: Is‧land

Proper noun

Ìsland m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд)

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈislant]

Proper noun

Island m inan (genitive singular Islandu, declension pattern of dub)

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Island in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse Ísland.

Proper noun

Island n (genitive Islands)

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Derived terms

Anagrams

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