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Meaning island meaning

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Definitions in simple English

island Noun

— An island is a piece of ground that is completely surrounded by water. The fisherman lived alone on a small island in James Bay. — An island of an object, person, or place, is one surrounded by things very different from itself. An island of peace and silence in a noisy city.

island

— noun a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water — noun a zone or area resembling an island

Synonyms island synonyms

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island English » English

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Topics island topics

What do people use island to talk about?

Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

Island, shore

What words refer to an island?

island isle islet archipelago atoll key

Examples island examples

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Simple sentences

We aren't on an island.

A bridge gives access to the island.

Churches were erected all over the island.

We arrived on the island two days later.

We can see the island in the distance.

Viewed from a distance, the island looked like a cloud.

The small island looked like a tortoise from a distance.

Chance led to the discovery of the new island.

Whenever I visited the island, I was impressed with the beauty of nature.

By whom was the island discovered?

The island is cut off far from the mainland.

The island is to the south of Japan.

The island lies to the west of Japan.

The island is covered with ice and snow during the winter.

We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.

Our boat approached the small island.

We saw an island in the distance.

Seen from the plane, the island looks very beautiful.

Movie subtitles

Is it because of our indirect contact and what happened at Kamine Island?

That just leaves the Kamine Island ruins.

China had to pay an indemnity of 21 million silver dollars, cede the island of Hong Kong, and open five ports to British trade, including this one.

I Love Lucy and Gilligan's Island have been broadcast to the galaxy, travelling at the speed of light, and they are our emissaries, they are our diplomats to the galaxy.

Garbage Island.

Since when did this become the island of Lesbos?

Ulysses lands on the island of the cyclope Polyphemus.

Only Ulysses saves himself and reaches the island of Calypso.

After a moving farewell, Ulysses leaves the island of Calypso.

The fragile vessel,driven by currents,.. comes to Pomotu island, in Oceania, inhabited only by apes.

Depressed and saddened, Saturnino decides to leave the hospitable island.

Farandola arrives at apes island to seek help from his former comrades.

Wenka's step-father seeks admission to the island.

Ysabel sails to the island.

Location, New York, Themis Island.

The island's auspicious name, for us it augurs well.

Damn it, what has Salvago, what has the island to do with your heinous intrigues?

I came to this island full of secret fear.

All you need is carfare to Long Island.

You'll see the water shoals on the island side. while the deep soundings run to the mainland.

Go ahead. We're heading straight for the channel between Branca Island and the mainland.

Doesn't Branca Island mean anything to you?

It would seem that this island were cursed.

Here on my island. I hunt the most dangerous game.

Here you see Zaroff, the keyboard king. in his Branca Island hour.

You see, when I first began stocking my island. many of my guests thought I was joking. so I established this trophy room.

Providence provided my island with dangerous reefs.

But on the other side of the island, an old man is sick. and calling for help from the good doctor.

We're heading straight for the channel between Branca Island and the mainland.

This island is no bigger than a deer park.

Weren't you mixed up in an auto accident over in Roslyn, Long Island, a few days ago?

Staten Island.

I saw an island in the Pacific once.

Take me to your island.

They have perplexed the most eminent scholars. These twins, ladies and gentlemen, born ten years ago today on a Polynesian island.

News and current affairs

The Maldives and a host of Pacific Island states will disappear: our twenty-first-century Atlantis.

The advanced countries might mean Bangladesh and the disappearing island states no harm, but no war could be more devastating.

This is because Cyprus remains a divided island.

Within the first two months of the devastating tsunami that struck that December, close to 50 heads of state and foreign ministers visited the island.

Its sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010 were unprecedented, and raised inter-Korean tensions to their highest level in decades.

Recently, under the aegis of the UN, a referendum on the future of Cyprus was held within the island's Greek and Turkish communities.

The second crisis was immediately preceded by the accident at the Three-Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania in March 1979, which reinvigorated the anti-nuclear movement.

And a long planned step forward in cooperation between South Korea and Japan was torpedoed when the South Korean president visited the barren island that Korea calls Dokdo, Japan calls Takeshima, and the United States calls the Liancourt Rocks.

Indeed, Abe's visit to Yasukuni came only a day after he completed a long-elusive, US-backed bilateral deal to relocate America's airbase in Okinawa to a less populous area of the island.

And now the island's economy, after a decade of torpor, is declining at an accelerating rate as people leave for the US mainland.

Yet it has features of both: Although it has its own constitution, it is a United States territory, Puerto Ricans are US citizens, and the island is subject to US federal law, except as otherwise stipulated.

The island must also comply with the federally mandated minimum wage, despite an income level about half that of the poorest US state.

Puerto Rico's current troubles trace their origin to the gradual withdrawal, starting in 1996, of earlier exemptions from US corporate taxes for companies located on the island.

No surprise, then, that people either leave the island or go on welfare and work in the informal economy.

Israelis wait for the day when our country will no longer be the region's only democracy, because being an island of prosperity in a sea of poverty is unnatural.

For the Puerto Rican authorities, this means making the island friendlier to business, including by removing onerous labor-market regulations.

But when I was born there, in 1952, the island was poorer than almost every country in Africa.

Puerto Rico is not Greece; successive governors of the island have introduced budgets they thought were balanced, only to find that inadequate growth led to lower revenues and higher expenditures than had been projected.

The US government should do its part to improve the island's prospects.

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