Synonyms of the word island


ISLANDEARTH - GROUND - LAND - ZONE

island

  • n. A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
  • n. An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
  • n. A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
  • n. A traffic island.
  • n. (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
  • n. (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
  • v. (transitive) To surround with water; make into an island.
  • v. (transitive) To set, dot (as if) with islands.
  • v. (transitive) To isolate.

earth

  • p.n. Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
  • n. (uncountable) Soil.
  • n. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
  • n. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
  • n. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in…
  • n. A fox's home or lair.
  • n. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
  • n. (alchemy) One of the four basic elements.
  • n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements.
  • n. (Taoism) One of the five basic elements.
  • v. (Britain) To connect electrically to the earth.
  • v. To bury.
  • v. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
  • v. To burrow.

ground

  • n. (uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
  • n. (uncountable) Terrain.
  • n. (uncountable) Soil, earth.
  • n. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
  • n. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
  • n. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
  • n. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
  • n. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
  • n. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
  • n. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
  • n. In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from…
  • n. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings…
  • n. (countable) A soccer stadium.
  • n. (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
  • n. (electricity, Canada and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
  • n. (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena…
  • n. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually…
  • n. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
  • n. The pit of a theatre.
  • v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
  • v. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give…
  • v. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
  • v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
  • v. (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular))…
  • v. (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease…
  • v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
  • v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
  • v. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with…
  • v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of grind.
  • adj. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
  • adj. Processed by grinding.

land

  • n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
  • n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings…
  • n. A country or region.
  • n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  • n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
  • n. A general country, state, or territory.
  • n. (often in combination) realm, domain.
  • n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is…
  • n. (Ireland, colloquial) A fright.
  • n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  • n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  • n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
  • n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
  • n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called…
  • n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is…
  • v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
  • v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
  • v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
  • v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to land.
  • v. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver.
  • adj. Of or relating to land.
  • adj. Residing or growing on land.
  • n. lant; urine.

zone

  • n. (geography, now rare) Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic…
  • n. Any given region or area of the world.
  • n. A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
  • n. A band or area of growth encircling anything.
  • n. A band or stripe extending around a body.
  • n. (crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
  • n. (baseball, informal) The strike zone.
  • n. (ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
  • n. (handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.
  • n. (chiefly sports) A high-performance phase or period.
  • n. (networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are…
  • n. (Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
  • n. (now literary) A belt or girdle.
  • n. (geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by…
  • n. (geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
  • n. A circuit; a circumference.
  • v. To divide into or assign sections or areas.
  • v. To define the property use classification of an area.
  • v. To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication;…
  • v. To girdle or encircle.

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