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iland

iland

See also: i land and i-land

English

Noun

iland (plural ilands)

  1. Obsolete form of island.
    • 1790, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical review, or, Annals of literature:
      This vast iland seems to have been first peopled by Fins and Laplanders, whom Ihre thinks the first inhabitants of the whole.
    • 1858, Thomas Wright, La mort d'Arthure:
      [...] 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.

References

  • iland in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911