Home › Words › I › islanderislander/ˈaɪləndə/islander means A person who lives on an island.islander is pronounced /ˈaɪləndə/.EtymologyFrom island + -er. Displaced Middle English insulane (“islander”), from Latin īnsulānus (“islander”).nounA person who lives on an island.e.g.“Susan happily introducing speaker Steve Smith, Channel Eleven’s newzanchor, ya’know, and an islandophile from wayyy back – and as of this writing, a newly retired islander and fisherman.” — 1999 June 6, Frances Powell, “A galapalooza for McClown House”, in The Daily News, number 57, Galveston, Tex., page C1, column 1:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).