Usually means: Isolated island, typically uninhabited, remote.
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  1. desert island: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. desert island: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desert island: Collins English Dictionary
  4. desert-island: Wordnik
  5. desert island: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. desert island: Wiktionary
  7. Desert Island (comic shop), Desert island, The Desert Island: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. desert island: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. desert island: Encyclopedia

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  1. Desert Island: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (desert island)

noun:  A deserted island, an uninhabited island, especially one in the tropics and (now frequently misunderstood as) a small and almost entirely sandy desert.
noun:  An island that is completely or mostly a desert, an arid island.
noun:  (figurative, attributive) Describing a thing considered so personally indispensable or beloved that one could never tire of it, used especially for books and music.

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