| 单词 |
islander |
| 释义 |
islander|ˈaɪləndə(r)|
[f. island n. + -er1.]
A native or inhabitant of an island. Also in comb., as Channel Islander, South Sea Islander.
c1550Life Fisher in F.'s Wks. (E.E.T.S.) II. p. xxxvi, Lyke the nature of Islanders that commonly be changeable and desirous of novelties. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 709 In S. Marie..they buried one of their dead men, the Ilanders being present. 1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) III. 392 We are islanders, and our life and soul is traffic. 1714Stanhope (title) The Early Conversion of Islanders, a wise expedient for propagating Christianity; on Isa. lx. 9. 1725Pope Odyss. xxiv. 307 Some surly islander, of manners rude. 1897Gladstone E. Crisis 10 Into one more of these struggles the gallant islanders have now entered.
attrib.1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 470 His Majestie being an Islander-Prince is not ignorant of the Laws and Rights of his own Kingdom.
Hence ˈislandress, a female islander. ˈislandry, a body of islanders.
1875R. F. Burton Ultima Thule I. 89 The roving islandry throve by piracy and discovery. 1892Stevenson Vailima Lett. (1895) 156, I go to the club to dance with the islandresses. |
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