英和和英

固有名詞

the Island

1. (New York City) Long Island (in New York State).
   • 1972, Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:

     Candy came from out on the Island / In the backroom, she was everybody's darling

2. (New Jersey) Long Beach Island.
3. (British Columbia) Vancouver Island.
   • 2008 December 8, “Grizzlies at home on the Island”, in Times Colonist:

     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.

   • 2010 October 12, Beau Simpson, “One 'Grape escape' on Vancouver Island”, in Surrey Now:

     And so, my lovely girlfriend Kari and I headed to the Island for a weekend of wines and dines.

   • 2011 July 7, Renee Andor, “His body hurts, but Vancouver Island circumnavigation record belongs to Angus”, in Comox Valley Record:

     Angus felt "fantastic" to have made it around the Island and beaten the record.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Island.
4. (Canada, colloquial) Synonym of Prince Edward Island.
5. (Internet slang) Epstein Island.
6. (UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.

語源 2

固有名詞

Island

1. Obsolete form of Iceland.
   • 1624, John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles

     […] Island, Groonland, Estotiland […]

アナグラム

• Ladins, Lindas, ilands, Landis