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An islander is someone who lives on an island, or who comes from one. It is an ordinary word for a person, not for the land. You can say a Pacific islander, a Scottish islander, the islanders of Taiwan’s islands. Though actually, people on a very large island — Britain, for example — often do not call themselves islanders, because the place does not feel small or cut off; the word sits more naturally on people from smaller islands. That is habit, not a grammar rule. It is neutral in tone, neither grand nor rude by itself.
島民；島上的居民
組成island + -er (a person who). It took the place of an older English word insulane, from Latin īnsulānus, “islander.”
同家族的字
- islandthe base; an islander is a person from one
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
islandernoun/ˈaɪləndə/
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A person who lives on an island.
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。