Definitions
Land completely surrounded by water.
Word origin
From earlier iland, from Middle English iland, yland, ylond, from Old English īeġland, from Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą (from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“island, waterland, meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂) + *landą (“land”), equivalent to ey + land.
Used in a sentence
“No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]”
“It's only an island if you look at it from the water…”
“Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Sea-ringed place”6 letters
02“Castaway setting”6 letters
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