(slang) Long Island in New York.

An uninhabited island, especially one in the tropics. / (attributive) Designating something that a person considers indispensable and would always want to have available.

plural of traffic island

(obsolete) Hawaiian Islands (an early name for the archipelago of nineteen Hawaiian Islands)

Someone from the Virgin Islands.

The southern islands of the Lesser Antilles, composed of the island nations of Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.

The northern of the Lesser Antilles, consisting of the islands or nations of the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Martin, Saint-Barthélemy, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Barbuda, Antigua, Montserrat and Guadeloupe.

An archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, comprising the British Virgin Islands and the United States Virgin Islands.

(physics) A grouping of isotopes of some transuranic elements that are predicted to be more stable than others due to having filled shells of protons and neutrons.

One of the islands in the Republic of Malta, named after the Grand Master Manoel de Vilhena.