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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.
Longman-Thesaurus
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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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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noun
surround by water:
The Hawaiian Islands are famous.
Simple Definitions
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island
adjectives
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 + NOUN
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.
phrases
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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