island
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Is island a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension, in place names) A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.Examples: "Despite its name, Barry Island is actually a peninsula"broadly
2. (by extension, West Midlands) A roundabout; a traffic circle.Examples: "Dunton island, near Birmingham, is one of the most confusingly labelled islands in the U.K."; "In Coventry, you will often hear people say: “Turn right at the island”."West-Midlandsbroadly
3. (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
4. (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.Examples: "Adverbial subordinate clauses are islands for extraction: "They have a billion dollars of inventory that they don't know where *(it) is"."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To surround with water; make into an island.Examples: "We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses."; "The car soon seemed islanded in water."transitive
2. (transitive) To set, dot (as if) with islands.Examples: "God dwells in light! Before the ocean of unmeasured space, was islanded with stars serenely bright, reflecting back the radiance of his face - he dwelt above in heaven’s immortal bliss, thinking into existence that which is."; "This Apulia is a land of vast pastures and cornfields and olive gardens, islanded with many rich cities, notable if only for the splendour of their churches,[…]"; "She knew that the town was islanded with many waters - the Hudson, the Harlem and the East rivers, and the Bay - but the rivers were hard to find in the universal velvetiness."transitive
3. (transitive) To isolate.Examples: "The turkey's nest was islanded with a fragrant swath,—the "heft" of the crop noted and rejoiced over,—the tons of good timothy and clover calculated,— […]"; "High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam / Islanded in Severn stream."transitive
name (English)
1. (New York City) Long Island (in New York State).Examples: "Candy came from out on the Island / In the backroom, she was everybody's darling"New-York-City
2. (British Columbia) Vancouver Island.Examples: "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."; "And so, my lovely girlfriend Kari and I headed to the Island for a weekend of wines and dines."; "Angus felt "fantastic" to have made it around the Island and beaten the record."British-Columbia
3. (Canada, colloquial) Synonym of Prince Edward Island.Synonyms: Prince Edward IslandCanadacolloquial
4. (Internet slang) Epstein Island.Internet
5. (UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.UKcolloquial
Definition source: Wiktionary