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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer
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noun |
| definition 1: |
an area of land smaller than a continent and surrounded by water on all sides.
Hawaii is a group of islands that many people like to visit.
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| definition 2: |
something that looks like such a body of land, in being different than the other things around it.
There was an island of trees in the middle of the open field. |
| related words: |
key |
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| derivation: |
islandlike (adj.) |
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