Island ˈaɪlənd Sea Noun Small/Tiny Remote Coast Scotland

• a small/tiny island
• a remote island off the coast of scotland
• the islands in the baltic sea
• the virgin islands

island

1. a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water
• SEE ALSO desert island
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/desert-island
• a small/tiny island
• a remote island off the coast of Scotland
• the islands in the Baltic Sea
• the Virgin Islands
• the resort island of Bali
• We spent a week on the Greek island of Kos.
• an island nation/state
• No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of suffering.

Extra Examples

• He owns a house on the island.
• The best beaches are on the southern tip of the island.
• They were forced to leave their island home and start a new life on the mainland.
• Fiji is a small South Pacific island nation.
• a ferry service to the outlying islands
• a group of tropical islands
• the island chain of the Bahamas
• the island paradise of Phuket
• Cuba is an island nation located on the northern rim of the Caribbean Sea.
2. an area in the middle of a road where you can stand and wait for cars to go past until it is safe for you to cross
• SEE ALSO safety island
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/safety-island

Word Origin

• Old English īegland, from īeg ‘island’ (from a base meaning ‘watery, watered’) + land. The change in the spelling of the first syllable in the 16th cent. was due to association with the unrelated word isle.