Definition of Insulars

1. Noun. (plural of insular) ¹

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Definition of Insulars

1. insular [n] - See also: insular

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insulars

insular area
insular arteries
insular cortex
insular gray fox
insular gyri
insular hypothesis
insular part
insular part of middle cerebral artery
insular sclerosis
insular veins
insularism
insularisms
insularities
insularity
insularly
insulars (current term)
insulary
insulas
insulate
insulated
insulates
insulating
insulating material
insulating tape
insulating tapes
insulation
insulationist
insulationists
insulations
insulator

Literary usage of Insulars

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Marching with Gomez: A War Correspondent's Field Notebook, Kept During Four by Grover Flint, John Fiske (1898)
"These favored immigrants in Cuba form the class of " Peninsulars," while the native Cuban Creoles are distinguished as the " insulars. ..."

2. The General Grievances and Oppression of the Isles of Orkney and Shetland by James Mackenzie (1836)
"Therefore, by these insulars there was a tribute then due to the King of Norway, which was afterwards to be paid to the King of Scots; and yet of them the ..."

3. Annual Report of the Chief, Children's Bureau to the Secretary of Labor by United States Children's Bureau, United States, Children's Bureau (1921)
"Race, sex, and age of immigrant aliens admitted in continental United States from insular United States, and in insular United States from other insulars ..."

4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"Figure you, dear Mister, these insulars, these enraged ones, playing at the cricket by a such heat I 7.KI/. Kolossal! Aug. Parfaitement! ..."

5. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"... you will always find your Isle, when you return, where you left it, and your insulars with the same desire to receive you for their governor as they ..."

6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"... everything beyond our own 'syver-stre; " of sea, till the combined effects of long peace and of steam transformed us from insulars to cosmopolitans. ..."

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