islander
[ahy-luh n-der]
- a native or inhabitant of an island.
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Origin of islander
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Contemporary Examples
With her win, Hirono also became the first Asian/Pacific Islander American woman to be elected to the Senate.
Historical Examples
The Fejee islander might assert his God to be good, but would that make you love him?
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
It is not everybody who lives on an island that is an islander.
The Little Manx Nation - 1891Hall Caine
The young Laird has attempted what no Islander perhaps ever thought on.
A Journey to the Western Isles of ScotlandSamuel Johnson
Then this man is now piloting the Islander through this channel?
Up the RiverOliver Optic
If the Islander had been within a mile of us we could have heard the clang of her screw.
Up the RiverOliver Optic
islander
- a native or inhabitant of an island
- (capital) NZ a native or inhabitant of the Pacific Islands
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