islander

CEFRB1

/ˈaɪləndə/

noun

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It is usually the islander who sees the mainland most clearly.
Tagalog has artistic value, like a carved Pacific Islander statue, Mr. and Mrs. Matsuo opine.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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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.
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.

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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.
1999 June 6, Frances Powell, “A galapalooza for McClown House”, in The Daily News, number 57, Galveston, Tex., page C1, column 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.
2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian

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