“demi、island”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

demi-island

释义

† demi-island Obs.
Also -iland.
[demi- 11.]
A peninsula.
1600Holland Livy xxxii. xxi. 822 Peloponnesus is a demie island [peninsula].1614Raleigh Hist. World II. iv. vi. §8. 245 He was kept vnder sure guard in a demie-Iland.1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1673) 2/2 It is a demy-Island, or Peninsula, environed on all sides with waters.
Hence † demi-ˈislander, an inhabitant of a peninsula.
a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Fam. Epist. Wks. (1711) 146 We can hardly repair unto you demi-islanders, without dancing and tossing on your arm of the sea.

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