iland

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A form of island — A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.

OriginMiddle English iland ← Old English īġland →
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Meanings

nouniland (plural ilands)

plural ilands

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of island.

    No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

    1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416
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    This vast iland seems to have been first peopled by Fins and Laplanders, whom Ihre thinks the first inhabitants of the whole.

    1790, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical review, or, Annals of literature

    […] and there came against him king Marsill, that had in gift an iland of sir Galahalt the haute prince, and this iland had the name Pomitaine.

    1858, Thomas Wright, La mort d'Arthure
  2. misspellingMisspelling of island.

Origin

  1. Old Englishīġland
  2. Middle Englishiland
  3. Englishiland

From Middle English iland, yland, from Old English īġland, īeġland (“island”). Cognate with Scots iland, yland (“island”). More at island.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

iland. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/iland

MLA

“iland.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/iland. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “iland,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/iland.

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