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Definition of desert island noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

desert island

noun
 
/ˌdezət ˈaɪlənd/
 
/ˌdezərt ˈaɪlənd/
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  1. a tropical island where no people live
    • Robinson Crusoe is cast away on a desert island for 28 years.
    Word Origindesert ultimately from Latin desertus ‘abandoned, deserted’; in later use treated as an attributive use of desert ‘area of land’.
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