islander

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Sea islander, and distinguished the instinct that guides large masses of men from the calculating wisdom of the few.

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  1. noun An inhabitant of an island.

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  • The man depicted is clearly an islander -- perhaps an ancestor of mine! —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • Once she appeared at the bedside of a dying islander, and asked, as the doctor had withdrawn, to try her own remedies. —  The Mothers Of Honoré From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
  • The ideas of witchcraft are also widely spread among barbarians; and they are not a little fearful that some incantation may be thrown among their victuals In noticing the solitary meal of the Maldivian islander, another reason may be alleged for this misanthropical repast. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • Drought may visit the islander, and he may be starved; the tornado may desolate his shore; fever and famine and thirst may lie in wait for him; sickness and sorrow and death abide with him. —  In the Footprints of the Padres
  • We are Frenchmen, you beggarly islander--Frenchmen, do you hear A growl of sympathetic indignation ran through the crowd, and "_à bas les aristocrats_--_à bas les Anglais_!" —  In the Days of My Youth
 

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  1. = Dutch eilander = German eiländer; as island + -er.
 

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/ˈaɪləndər/
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