Island ˈaɪlənd Noun Bre Spent Week Greek Kos

• we spent a week on the greek island of kos.
• a remote island off the coast of scotland
• no place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of suffering.
• fiji is a small south pacific island nation.

island

1. a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water
• see also desert island
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/desert-island
• We spent a week on the Greek island of Kos.
• a remote island off the coast of Scotland
• No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of suffering.
• = traffic island
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/traffic-island

Extra Examples

• Fiji is a small South Pacific island nation.
• He owns a house on the island.
• His money is in an offshore island bank.
• Puerto Rico and its offshore islands
• 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.
• a ferry service to the outlying islands
• a group of tropical islands
• the island chain of the Bahamas
• the island paradise of Phuket

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.