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# island

«island» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of land with water all around it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an island, islands)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An island is a piece of land with water all around it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/#m1)

2) An island is anything that stands alone, surrounded by something different, like a traffic island in a road or a kitchen island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, Great Britain, Ireland, Tasmania, New Zealand's North and South Islands and Hawaii are islands; Australia is so big it is called a continent. A group of islands is an archipelago. Islands can form from volcanoes or coral. In road safety, a traffic island lets pedestrians stop halfway across. In stories, a desert island, treasure island or castaway tells the reader the hero is alone and must survive. Phrases: «on an island», «desert island», «island country», «traffic island», «no man is an island».

### examples

- Ireland is an island in the Atlantic Ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/#x1)
- We took a ferry to the island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/#x2)
- New Zealand is made up of two main islands and many smaller ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/#x3)
- Hawaii's islands were made by volcanoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/#x4)
- The castaway lived alone on a desert island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/#x5)
- Wait on the traffic island before crossing the second lane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/#x6)
- Robinson Crusoe was stranded on an island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/#x7)
- We ate breakfast at the kitchen island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/#x8)

### note

Spelling trap: the «s» is silent — «EYE-land». An island → «an», because it starts with a vowel sound. People live «on» an island, not «in» (except for large island countries: «in Ireland»). «Isle» is a poetic word for island (the Isle of Wight).

### In the corpora

- [Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between islands in the mangroves of India and Bangladesh and can swim several kilometres.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/10/)
- [Jonathan, a giant tortoise on the island of St Helena, hatched around 1832 and is the oldest known living land animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/8/)
- [Great apes do not swim naturally and can drown, so zoos use water moats around ape islands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/11/)
- [Lemurs live wild only on Madagascar and a few nearby islands; about a hundred kinds are known, and many are in danger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa/11/)
- [Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his kind from Pinta Island, died in 2012.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «island» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/island/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.