Noun:

टापू पर रहनेवाला, द्वीप पर रहनेवाला,

islanders's Usage Examples:

The Sandwich Islanders also cut a lock from a slain foe (W.

The islanders worshipped him, and occasionally identified him with Zeus, calling him Zeus Aristaeus.

In 1856, 194 Pitcairn islanders took the place of the convicts.

They are the home of myriads of sea-birds and one of the nesting-places of the bonxie, or great skua (Lestris cataractes), which used to be fostered by the islanders to keep down the eagles, and the eggs of which are still strictly preserved.

The traditional charge of cannibalism has been very persistent; but it is entirely denied by the islanders themselves, and is now and probably always has been untrue.

He finds near kinsmen for them in the Ainus of Japan, the Khmers and Chams of Cambodia and among some of the Micronesian islanders who, in spite of much crossing, still exhibit marked Caucasic types.

In religion the islanders are Seventh Day Adventists.

South Sea Islanders and other coloured races, numbering probably about 15,000, were in 1906 to be found principally in Queensland, but further immigration of Pacific Islanders to Australia is now restricted, and the majority of those in the country in 1906 were deported by the middle of 1907.

The islanders were converted to Christianity in the 6th and 7th centuries by Irish missionaries, in commemoration of whose zeal several isles bear the name of Papa or "priest."

The farmers are chiefly Italians, Canary Islanders and Frenchmen.

Synonyms:

denizen, inhabitant, dweller, island-dweller, indweller, habitant,

Antonyms:

inactivation, nonresident,