islander

See also: Islander and Isländer

English

Etymology

From island +‎ -er. Displaced Middle English insulane (“islander”), from Latin īnsulānus (“islander”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪləndə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪləndɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: highlander (H-dropping accents)

Noun

islander (plural islanders)

1. A person who lives on an island.
   • 1999 June 6, Frances Powell, “A galapalooza for McClown House”, in The Daily News, number 57, Galveston, Tex., page C1, column 1:

     Susan happily introducing speaker Steve Smith, Channel Eleven’s newzanchor, ya’know, and an islandophile from wayyy back – and as of this writing, a newly retired islander and fisherman.

   • 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination.

Synonyms

• islandman, island-man, island man, insular

Hyponyms

• islandwoman, island-woman, island woman

Related terms

• Aleutian Islander
• Ascension Islander
• British Virgin Islander
• Canary Islander
• Channel Islander
• Christmas Islander
• Cocos Islander
• Cocos (Keeling) Islander
• Cook Islander
• Easter Islander
• Faeroe Islander
• Falkland Islander
• Faroe Islander
• Islander
• isle
• Keeling Islander
• Leeward Islander
• Line Islander
• Long Islander
• Marshall Islander
• Midway Islander
• Norfolk Islander
• Northern Mariana Islander
• North Islander
• Pacific Islander
• Pitcairn Islander
• Prince Edward Islander
• Rhode Islander
• Sandwich Islander
• Scilly Islander
• Society Islander
• Solomon Islander
• South Islander
• Staten Islander
• Torres Strait Islander
• Treasury Islander
• Trobriand Islander
• Turks and Caicos Islander
• US Virgin Islander
• Vancouver Islander
• Virgin Islander
• Wake Islander
• Wallis and Futuna Islander
• Westman Islander
• Windward Islander

Translations

person who lives on an island

• Arabic: جَزَرِيّ m (jazariyy), جَزَرِيَّة f (jazariyya)
• Armenian: կղզիաբնակ (hy) (kġziabnak)
• Belarusian: астраўля́нін m (astraŭljánin), астраўля́нка f (astraŭljánka)
• Catalan: illenc m, illenca f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 島民 / 岛民 (zh) (dǎomín), 島上居民 / 岛上居民 (dǎo shàng jūmín)

• Czech: ostrovan (cs) m, ostrovanka (cs) f
• Danish: øbo (da) c, øboer (da) c
• Dutch: eilander (nl) m, eilandster f, eilandbewoner (nl) m, eilandbewoonster f
• Esperanto: insulano (eo), insulanino (female)
• Estonian: saarlane (et)
• Faroese: oyggjarbúgvi m, oyggjarskeggi m
• Finnish: saarelainen (fi), saaristolainen
• French: insulaire (fr) m or f, habitant d’une île m, habitante d’une île f, habitant de l’île m, habitante de l’île f, îlien (fr) m, îlienne (fr) f
• Galician: insular (gl)
• Georgian: კუნძულის მცხოვრები (ḳunʒulis mcxovrebi), კუნძულის მკვიდრი (ḳunʒulis mḳvidri), კუნძულელი (ḳunʒuleli)
• German: Inselbewohner (de) m, Inselbewohnerin (de) f, Insulaner (de) m, Insulanerin (de) f
• Greek: νησιώτης (el) m (nisiótis), νησιώτισσα (el) f (nisiótissa)

  Ancient: νησιώτης m (nēsiṓtēs)

• Icelandic: eybúi m, eybyggi m, eyjarmaður m, eyjarskeggi (is) m
• Ido: insulano (io), insulanulo, insulanino (female)
• Ingrian: saarelain
• Irish: oileánach (ga) m
• Italian: isolano (it) m, isolana (it) f
• Japanese: 島民 (ja) (とうみん, tōmin)
• Ladino: adalí m, adaliya f
• Latin: insulānus m
• Macedonian: островјанин m (ostrovjanin), оствовјанка f (ostvovjanka)
• Navajo: táłkááʼ kéyah dineʼé
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: øyboer m, øybuer m, øybu m

  Nynorsk: øybuar m, øybu m

• Pijin: aelanda
• Polish: wyspiarz (pl) m, wyspiarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ilhéu (pt) m, ilhoa (pt) f
• Russian: островитя́нин (ru) m (ostrovitjánin), островитя́нка (ru) f (ostrovitjánka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: острвљанин m, острвљанка f, оточанин m, оточанка f

  Roman: ostrvljanin m, ostrvljanka f, otočanin (sh) m, otočanka (sh) f

• Slovak: ostrovan m, ostrovanka f
• Spanish: isleño (es) m, isleña (es) f, insulano m
• Swedish: öbo (sv) c
• Turkish: adalı (tr)
• Ukrainian: острів'я́нин m (ostrivʺjányn), острів'я́нка f (ostrivʺjánka), остров'я́нин m (ostrovʺjányn), остров'я́нка f (ostrovʺjánka)
• Volapük: nisulan (vo), hinisulan (male), jinisulan (female)

Anagrams

• linderas, Irelands, sireland, Ladniers, Seriland, Sindelar, sire-land