Definitions
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- noun An area of land occupying
part orhalf of anisland . - noun A piece of land which is "halfway" an island; a
byland ;peninsula .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was preparing to move back to his native Australia, then to East Timor, a half-island nation still healing from a brutal separation from Indonesia.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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He was preparing to move back to his native Australia, then to East Timor, a half-island nation still healing from a brutal separation from Indonesia.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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He was preparing to move back to his native Australia, then to East Timor, a half-island nation still healing from a brutal separation from Indonesia.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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In his extraordinary career, Sergio -- my friend for more than 20 years -- worked in an astonishing collection of dangerous spots, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lebanon, Bosnia, Rwanda, Congo, Mozambique and East Timor, where his experience in guiding a war-torn half-island to independence had direct relevance to the challenges in Iraq.
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Indonesia withdrew its troops from the small half-island last
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The vote is to determine whether the half-island territory, under Jakarta's rule for the past 24 years, will remain part of
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East Timor blasts Australia for failing to help with patrol boats EAST Timor's defence chief has blasted Australia for its tardy response in helping the half-island state develop a patrol boat fleet to tackle people-smuggling.
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East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta says Indonesia still needs to apologise over its brutal occupation of the half-island even if relations between the neighbours have improved.
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Woodside had preferred a floating platform for processing the natural gas while East Timor wanted it piped to the half-island nation for processing on land.
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Pundits, humanitarian organizations, and even the Haitian government haven't fully assessed the devastation on the earthquake-shattered half-island.
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