Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Island en · PROPN · etymology 1
Meanings
(New-York-City) Long Island (in New York State).
Candy came from out on the Island / In the backroom, she was everybody's darling 1972, Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:
(New-Jersey) Long Beach Island.
(British-Columbia) Vancouver Island.
And so, my lovely girlfriend Kari and I headed to the Island for a weekend of wines and dines. 2010 October 12, Beau Simpson, “One 'Grape escape' on Vancouver Island”, in Surrey Now:
Angus felt "fantastic" to have made it around the Island and beaten the record. 2011 July 7, Renee Andor, “His body hurts, but Vancouver Island circumnavigation record belongs to Angus”, in Comox Valley Record:
A grizzly was photographed at Rugged Point near Kyuquot on the northwest coast of the Island in May, close to the time bears emerge from their dens, suggesting it had successfully hibernated on the Island. 2008 December 8, “Grizzlies at home on the Island”, in Times Colonist:
(Canada, colloquial) Synonym of Prince Edward Island.
(Internet, euphemistic) Epstein Island.
(UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.