off-islandern.
/ɒfˈʌɪləndə/, U.S. /ˌɔfˈaɪləndər/, /ˌɑfˈaɪləndər/ 1. North American. A visitor or temporary resident on an island; originally spec. a visitor to the island of Nantucket.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > on island
off-islander1876
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on island
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Isleman1815
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1876 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 228/1 Huldah was an off-islander who had come from nobody knew where.
1882 J. G. Austin (title) Nantucket scrapes: being the experiences of an off-islander, in season and out of season, among a passing people.
1939 S. Chamberlain Nantucket 4 Artists and summer visitors have discovered its allure, and many fortunate ‘off islanders’ now live in old Nantucket houses.
1974 Audubon Jan. 9/2 Off-islanders from all over the country and Canada cram into restaurants and bars,..turning the whole area into an only slightly civilized version of Martha's Vineyard.
1992 Offshore Sept. 36/3 Those other places on Aquidneck Island..that many off-islanders think of as Newport but are actually Middletown and Portsmouth.
2. Isles of Scilly. An inhabitant of an island of the Isles of Scilly other than the main island, St Mary's.
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1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall p. x The people on St. Mary's often laugh at the peculiarities of the ‘Off-oislanders’.
1967 Daily Tel. 17 May 21/1 Mr. John Knott, Conservative MP for St. Ives, Cornwall, is to meet representatives of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Scillies Council, the Steamship Co. and ‘off-islanders’ on Saturday.
2000 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 1 June 37 Many who attended the meeting were off-islanders who would see their representation cut.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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