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islander

[ ahy-luhn-der ]

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of an island.


islander

/ ˈaɪləndə /

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of an island
  2. capital a native or inhabitant of the Pacific Islands
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of islander1

First recorded in 1540–50; island + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Both the islands and the islanders are enigmatically incomparable.

The only way to solve this puzzle is to adopt the perspective of the islanders.

From Time

Greenland’s extensive high-speed fiber-optic network has brought with it better access to streaming services, allowing younger islanders to binge-watch American TV series and movies, Broberg says.

From Time

To the islanders, all of the men are outsiders, strangers from other lands.

From Time

The military planes running on fossil fuels only pollute the air local islanders breathe.

From Vox

In his memoir, Belfort describes Danny Porush (the real Azoff) as a Jewish Long Islander with WASP pretensions.

With her win, Hirono also became the first Asian/Pacific Islander American woman to be elected to the Senate.

The field of Asian-American/Pacific Islander candidates has exploded in this political cycle.

He was a bald islander who wore a hat and lots of gold jewelry.

A Sandwich Islander appreciates this when he salutes a British crew in terms compounded of oaths and ribaldry.

They may do very well for St. Paul; in the case of an Andaman islander they mean less than nothing.

She showed no colors, but the old islander, once a whaler, declared that she was a British man-o'-war.

And third, never to intrust the care of youth to a cannibal heathen South Sea Islander.

None, said the Islander, was more deservedly respected, and by his death the world has lost one who was an honest and upright man.

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