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Noun
S: (n) Earth, earth, world, globe (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on) "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world"
S: (n) earth, ground (the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface) "they dug into the earth outside the church"
S: (n) land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface) "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"
S: (n) Cape Froward (a cape on the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile; the most southern point on the mainland of South America)
S: (n) Cape Hatteras (a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina) "frequent storms drive ships to their destruction on Cape Hatteras"
S: (n) Cape Sable (a cape at the southwest tip of Florida; the southernmost part of the United States mainland)
S: (n) Cape Trafalgar (a small cape in southwestern Spain) "Nelson defeated the French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar in 1805"
S: (n) Cape York (the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland)
S: (n) Sherwood Forest (an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band)
S: (n) Wilderness (a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War)
S: (n) island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
S: (n) Falkland Islands (a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British Crown Colony)
S: (n) Ceylon (an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India)
S: (n) Chiloe (the largest Chilean island and the only one to be settled; located off south-central Chile)
S: (n) Taiwan, Formosa (an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea)
S: (n) Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China (a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong)
S: (n) Culebra (a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico with miles of beautiful beaches)
S: (n) Vieques (a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico used for target practice by the United States Navy)
S: (n) Jamaica (an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti)
S: (n) Virgin Islands (a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain)
S: (n) Barbados (easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela)
S: (n) Trinidad (an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela)
S: (n) Dominica (a volcanic island in the Windward Islands that was once a stronghold of the Carib Indians)
S: (n) Bioko (an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea)
S: (n) Spitsbergen, Spitzbergen (islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway)
S: (n) Galapagos Islands, Galapagos (a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life)
S: (n) Fiji Islands, Fijis (a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral)
S: (n) Greenland, Gronland, Kalaallit Nunaat (the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark)
S: (n) Baffin Island (the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay)
S: (n) Vancouver Island (an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia); the largest island off the west coast of North America)
S: (n) Tasmania (an island off the southeastern coast of Australia)
S: (n) Norfolk Island (an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony)
S: (n) Saipan (the largest island in the Northern Marianas and the administrative center of the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in union with the United States)
S: (n) Guam, GU (the largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States; it was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898)
S: (n) Nauru, Nauru Island, Pleasant Island (a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands)
S: (n) Borneo, Kalimantan (3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago)
S: (n) Bougainville (the largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea)
S: (n) Guadalcanal (a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth)
S: (n) New Britain (the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea)
S: (n) New Caledonia (an island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand)
S: (n) New Guinea (a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea)
S: (n) New Ireland (an island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea)
S: (n) Java (an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions)
S: (n) Bali (an island in Indonesia to the east of Java; striking volcanic scenery; culture is known for elaborate dances and rituals and for handicrafts)
S: (n) Timor (an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands)
S: (n) Sumatra (a mountainous island in western Indonesia)
S: (n) Moluccas, Spice Islands (a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands)
S: (n) Hokkaido, Ezo, Yezo (the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu)
S: (n) Honshu, Hondo (the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland)
S: (n) Kyushu (the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields)
S: (n) Shikoku (the smallest of the four main islands of Japan; to the south of Honshu and to the east of Kyushu; separated from Honshu by the Inland Sea; forested and mountainous)
S: (n) Okinawa (the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands)
S: (n) Iwo Jima (the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan)
S: (n) Azores, Acores (islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal) "the Azores are strategically located on transatlantic air and shipping routes"
S: (n) Madeira (an island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa; the largest of the Madeira Islands)
S: (n) Saint Vincent, St. Vincent (an island in the center of the Windward Islands; the largest of the islands comprising Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
S: (n) Tahiti (an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin)
S: (n) Samoa, Samoan Islands (a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific midway between Hawaii and Australia; its climate and scenery and Polynesian culture make it a popular tourist stop)
S: (n) Principe (an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Sao Tome and Principe)
S: (n) Nantucket (an island resort off Cape Cod; formerly a center of the whaling industry)
S: (n) Liberty Island, Bedloe's Island (an island in New York Bay to the southwest of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty stands) "Congress officially changed the name from Bedloe's Island to Liberty Island in 1956"
S: (n) Manhattan Island (an island at the north end of New York Bay where the borough of Manhattan is located)
S: (n) Ellis Island (an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States) "some twelve millions immigrants passed through Ellis Island"
S: (n) Long Island (an island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end)
S: (n) Krakatau, Krakatao, Krakatoa (a small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra; its violent eruption in 1883 was the greatest in recorded history)
S: (n) New Siberian Islands (a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Laptev Sea)
S: (n) Kodiak, Kodiak Island (an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784)
S: (n) isthmus (a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas)
S: (n) continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth) "there are seven continents"; "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot"
S: (n) subcontinent (a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent)
S: (n) mainland (the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula)
S: (n) neck (a narrow elongated projecting strip of land)
S: (n) oxbow (the land inside an oxbow bend in a river)
S: (n) peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)
S: (n) plain, field, champaign (extensive tract of level open land) "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
S: (n) flat (a level tract of land) "the salt flats of Utah"
S: (n) steppe (extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia))
S: (n) tundra (a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen)
S: (n) Olympia (a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games)
S: (n) Nullarbor Plain (a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight; has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited; the site of a major rocket research center)
S: (n) worldly concern, earthly concern, world, earth (the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife) "they consider the church to be independent of the world"