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Noun island has 2 senses
- island - a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
--1 is a kind of land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
--1 is a member of archipelago
--1 has particulars: | Anguilla; Aran Islands; Cayman Islands; Antigua; Barbuda; Redonda; Bermuda, Bermudas; Montserrat; Sao Tiago Island; Falkland Islands; Ceylon; Chiloe; Taiwan, Formosa; Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China; Guadalupe Island; Caribbean Island; Netherlands Antilles; Aruba; Bonaire; Curacao; Saba; Saint Eustatius, St. Eustatius; Saint Martin, St. Martin, Saint Maarten, St. Maarten; Cuba; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola, Haiti, Hayti; Puerto Rico, Porto Rico; Culebra; Vieques; Jamaica; Virgin Islands; Barbados; Trinidad; Tobago; Cyprus; Zealand, Seeland, Sjaelland; Dominica; Bioko; Spitsbergen, Spitzbergen; Galapagos Islands, Galapagos; Fiji Islands, Fijis; Viti Levu; Vanua Levu; Aegean island; Crete, Kriti; Ithaca, Ithaki; Egadi Islands, Aegadean Isles, Aegadean Islands, Isole Egadi, Aegates; Lemnos, Limnos; Capri; Ischia; Sardinia, Sardegna; Sicily, Sicilia; Greenland, Gronland, Kalaallit Nunaat; Baffin Island; Vancouver Island; Newfoundland; Cape Breton Island; Tasmania; Norfolk Island; Saipan; Guam, GU; Wake Island, Wake; Nauru, Nauru Island, Pleasant Island; Borneo, Kalimantan; Bougainville; Guadalcanal; New Britain; New Caledonia; New Guinea, Papua; New Ireland; Bahrain, Bahrain Island, Bahrein, Bahrein Island; British Isles; Great Britain; Ireland, Hibernia, Emerald Isle; Channel Islands; Man, Isle of Man; Isle of Skye; Islay; Mull; Staffa; Anglesey, Anglesey Island, Anglesea, Anglesea Island, Mona; Java; Bali; Timor; Sumatra; Celebes, Sulawesi; Moluccas, Spice Islands; Hokkaido, Ezo, Yezo; Honshu, Hondo; Kyushu; Shikoku; Okinawa; Iwo Jima; Ile-St-Louis; Corse, Corsica; Martinique; Faroe Islands, Faeroe Islands, Faroes, Faeroes; Iceland; Madagascar; Maldives, Maldive Islands; Malta; Mauritius; New Zealand; North Island; South Island; Cebu; Luzon; Mindanao; Mindoro; Visayan Islands, Bisayas; Azores, Acores; Madeira Islands; Saint Christopher, St. Christopher, Saint Kitts, St. Kitts; Nevis; Sombrero; Saint Lucia, St. Lucia; Saint Vincent, St. Vincent; Tahiti; Samoa, Samoan Islands; Principe; Seychelles; Singapore; Novaya Zemlya, Nova Zembla; Majorca; Canary Islands, Canaries; Tenerife; Zanzibar; Admiralty Island; Santa Catalina, Catalina Island; Hawaii, Hawaii Island; Kahoolawe, Kahoolawe Island; Kauai, Kauai Island; Lanai, Lanai Island; Maui, Maui Island; Molokai, Molokai Island; Nihau, Nihau Island; Oahu, Oahu Island; Martha's Vineyard; Nantucket; Liberty Island, Bedloe's Island; Manhattan Island; Ellis Island; Long Island; Galveston Island; Krakatau, Krakatao, Krakatoa; New Siberian Islands; barrier island; isle, islet; Kodiak, Kodiak Island; South Sea Islands |
- island - a zone or area resembling an island
--2 is a kind of zone
--2 has particulars: traffic island, safety island, safety isle, safety zone
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