ISLAND
\ˈa͡ɪlənd], \ˈaɪlənd], \ˈaɪ_l_ə_n_d]\
Definitions of ISLAND
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
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Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
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See Isle, n., 2.
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To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.
By Oddity Software
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A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
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Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
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See Isle, n., 2.
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To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.
By Noah Webster.
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The science dealing with the earth and its life, especially the description of land, sea, and air and the distribution of plant and animal life, including humanity and human industries with reference to the mutual relations of these elements. (From Webster, 3d ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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In anatomy, a structure more or less detached from a main mass and surrounded by structures of a different sort.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe