Usually means: Land surrounded by water completely.
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We found 58 dictionaries that define the word island:

General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. Island, island: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Island, island: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. island: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. island: Collins English Dictionary
  5. island: Vocabulary.com
  6. Island, island: Wordnik
  7. island: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Island: Wiktionary
  9. island: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. island: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. island: Dictionary.com
  12. island: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. island: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Island: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. island: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. island: Rhymezone
  18. island: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. island: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. island: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. island: Free Dictionary
  22. island: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Island, island: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. island: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. island: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. island: Wiktionary
  27. island: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Island: Lexicon of Linguistics
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. Island: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. island: Legal dictionary
  3. Island: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. island: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  4. island: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ISLAND: Acronym Finder
  4. island: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Island: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Island: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. island: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Island: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. The Island, island: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See islanding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
noun:  (by extension, in place names) A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; A peninsula; A half-island.
noun:  An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
noun:  A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
noun:  A traffic island.
noun:  (by extension, West Midlands) A roundabout; a traffic circle.
noun:  A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
noun:  (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
noun:  (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
verb:  (transitive) To surround with water; make into an island.
verb:  (transitive) To set, dot (as if) with islands.
verb:  (transitive) To isolate.
noun:  (New York City) Long Island (in New York State)
noun:  (British Columbia) Vancouver Island
noun:  (Internet slang) Epstein Island
noun:  (UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight

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