"Snake Island" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: snake + island Etymology templates: {{com|en|snake|island}} snake + island Head templates: {{en-proper-noun|head=Snake Island}} Snake Island
  1. Any of several islands with the name Categories (place): Islands Synonyms: Snake Coordinate_terms: Serpent, Serpent Island, Serpent Isle, Snake, Snake Isle
    Sense id: en-Snake_Island-en-name-pYJ~gkDM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

Etymology: Calque of Ukrainian о́стрів Змії́ний (óstriv Zmijínyj, “Snake Island”) or Russian о́стров Змеи́ный (óstrov Zmeínyj, “Snake Island”), from Romanian Insula Șerpilor (“Serpent Island”), from from Byzantine Greek Φιδονήσι (Phidonḗsi, “Snake Isle”), from Byzantine Greek φιδο (phido, “snake”) (Greek φίδι (fídi)) + νήσι (nísi, “island”). Etymology templates: {{commonscat|Snake Island (Black Sea)}}, {{calque|en|uk|о́стрів Змії́ний||Snake Island}} Calque of Ukrainian о́стрів Змії́ний (óstriv Zmijínyj, “Snake Island”), {{calque|en|ru|о́стров Змеи́ный||Snake Island|nocap=1|notext=1}} Russian о́стров Змеи́ный (óstrov Zmeínyj, “Snake Island”), {{der|en|ro|Insula Șerpilor||Serpent Island}} Romanian Insula Șerpilor (“Serpent Island”), {{der|en|gkm|Φιδονήσι||Snake Isle}} Byzantine Greek Φιδονήσι (Phidonḗsi, “Snake Isle”), {{der|en|gkm|φιδο||snake}} Byzantine Greek φιδο (phido, “snake”), {{noncog|el|φίδι}} Greek φίδι (fídi), {{m|el|νήσι||island}} νήσι (nísi, “island”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Snake Island}} Snake Island
  1. An island in Budjak, on the Black Sea, at the Danue Delta, Danube River in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine, on the border with Romania Categories (place): Islands, Places in Ukraine Synonyms: Fidonisi, Serpent, Serpent Island, Snake, Zmiinyi, Zmiinyi Island Translations (Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania): Ἀχιλλέως νῆσος (Akhilléōs nêsos) (Ancient Greek), Ἀχίλλεια νῆσος (Akhílleia nêsos) (Ancient Greek), Δρόμον Ἀχιλλέως (Drómon Akhilléōs) (Ancient Greek), Ἀχίλλειος δρόμος (Akhílleios drómos) (Ancient Greek), جَزِيرَةُ الثُّعْبَان (jazīratu ṯ-ṯuʕbān) [feminine] (Arabic), Змяі́ны (Zmjaíny) [masculine] (Belarusian), во́страў Змяі́ны (vóstraŭ Zmjaíny) [masculine] (Belarusian), Змяі́ны во́страў (Zmjaíny vóstraŭ) [masculine] (Belarusian), Зми́йски о́стров (Zmíjski óstrov) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 蛇島 (Chinese Mandarin), 蛇岛 (Shé dǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), Slangeøen [common-gender] (Danish), Slangeneiland [neuter] (Dutch), île des Serpents [feminine] (French), Schlangeninsel [feminine] (German), Φιδονήσι (Fidonísi) [neuter] (Greek), Kígyó-sziget (Hungarian), ズミイヌイ島 (Zumiinui tō) (alt: ズミイヌイとう) (Japanese), 즈미이니섬 (Jeumiiniseom) (Korean), Gyvačių sala [feminine] (Lithuanian), Wyspa Wężowa [feminine] (Polish), Ilha da Serpente [feminine] (Portuguese), Insula Șerpilor [feminine] (Romanian), Змеи́ный (Zmeínyj) [masculine] (Russian), о́стров Змеи́ный (óstrov Zmeínyj) [masculine] (Russian), Змеи́ный о́стров (Zmeínyj óstrov) [masculine] (Russian), isla de las Serpientes [feminine] (Spanish), Yılan Adası (Turkish), Змії́ний (Zmijínyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), о́стрів Змії́ний (óstriv Zmijínyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), Змії́ний о́стрів (Zmijínyj óstriv) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-Snake_Island-en-name-Rr7aIRYX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Related terms: island, Island, Island of Snake, Island of Snakes, isle, Isle, Isle of Serpent, Isle of Serpents, Isle of Snake, Isle of Snakes, serpent, Serpent, serpentine, Serpentine, Serpentine Island, Serpentin Isle, Serpent Island, Serpent Isle, snake, Snake, Snake Isle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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      ],
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        {
          "word": "Snake"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "en:Snake Island"
  ],
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}

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    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms calqued from Russian",
    "English terms calqued from Ukrainian",
    "English terms derived from Byzantine Greek",
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    "English terms derived from Russian",
    "English terms derived from Ukrainian",
    "English uncountable nouns"
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      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "commonscat"
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        "3": "Insula Șerpilor",
        "4": "",
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      "name": "der"
    },
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        "4": "",
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gkm",
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        "4": "",
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      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
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      },
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      "args": {
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        "3": "",
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    }
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  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "head": "Snake Island"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "word": "island"
    },
    {
      "word": "Island"
    },
    {
      "word": "Island of Snake"
    },
    {
      "word": "Island of Snakes"
    },
    {
      "word": "isle"
    },
    {
      "word": "Isle"
    },
    {
      "word": "Isle of Serpent"
    },
    {
      "word": "Isle of Serpents"
    },
    {
      "word": "Isle of Snake"
    },
    {
      "word": "Isle of Snakes"
    },
    {
      "word": "serpent"
    },
    {
      "word": "Serpent"
    },
    {
      "word": "serpentine"
    },
    {
      "word": "Serpentine"
    },
    {
      "word": "Serpentine Island"
    },
    {
      "word": "Serpentin Isle"
    },
    {
      "word": "Serpent Island"
    },
    {
      "word": "Serpent Isle"
    },
    {
      "word": "snake"
    },
    {
      "word": "Snake"
    },
    {
      "word": "Snake Isle"
    }
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Islands",
        "en:Places in Ukraine"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Rongxing Guo, Territorial Disputes and Resource Management: A Global Handbook, →OCLC, page 224",
          "text": "SNAKE ISLAND\nLocated in the northwestern side of the Black Sea, Snake Island, or called ostriv Zmiyinyy in Ukrainian and Insula Serpilor in Romanian, is currently administered by Ukraine but claimed by Romania. The Snake Island is a limestone formation located 35 km from the coast, east of the mouth of the Danube River.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June, Michael A. McDevitt, Catherine K. Lea, Japan's Territorial Disputes: CNA Maritime Asia Project, Workshop Three, CNA, →OCLC, page 9",
          "text": "In the Snake Island case, the court ruled that Snake Island—which is a territory of Ukraine, but is in the Black Sea on the maritime boundary with Romania— would not be given a full exclusive economic zone (EEZ) because that would distort the maritime boundary with Romania. In this way, the court ensured an equitable result of the maritime boundary between Romania and Ukraine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 26, Dan Lamothe, “Ukrainian border guards may have survived reported last stand on Snake Island”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2022-02-28",
          "text": "The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said in a statement posted to its Facebook page that the guards may be alive, after Russian media reported that they were taken as prisoners from their base on Snake Island in the Black Sea to Sevastopol, a port city that Russia controls on the Crimean Peninsula.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 7, “Ukrainian troops land on Snake Island to raise national flag”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2022-07-07",
          "text": "Ukrainian troops have landed on Snake Island where they raised Ukraine’s flag, according to officials, one week after Russian forces withdrew from the strategic islet in the Black Sea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An island in Budjak, on the Black Sea, at the Danue Delta, Danube River in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine, on the border with Romania"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Budjak",
          "Budjak#English"
        ],
        [
          "Black Sea",
          "Black Sea#English"
        ],
        [
          "Danue Delta",
          "Danue Delta#English"
        ],
        [
          "Danube",
          "Danube#English"
        ],
        [
          "Odessa",
          "Odessa#English"
        ],
        [
          "Ukraine",
          "Ukraine#English"
        ],
        [
          "Romania",
          "Romania"
        ]
      ]
    }
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    {
      "word": "Fidonisi"
    },
    {
      "word": "Serpent"
    },
    {
      "word": "Serpent Island"
    },
    {
      "word": "Snake"
    },
    {
      "word": "Zmiinyi"
    },
    {
      "word": "Zmiinyi Island"
    }
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "jazīratu ṯ-ṯuʕbān",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "جَزِيرَةُ الثُّعْبَان"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "Zmjaíny",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Змяі́ны"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "vóstraŭ Zmjaíny",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "во́страў Змяі́ны"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "Zmjaíny vóstraŭ",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Змяі́ны во́страў"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "Zmíjski óstrov",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Зми́йски о́стров"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "word": "蛇島"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Shé dǎo",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "word": "蛇岛"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "Slangeøen"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "île des Serpents"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlangeninsel"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "Fidonísi",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Φιδονήσι"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "Akhilléōs nêsos",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "word": "Ἀχιλλέως νῆσος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "Akhílleia nêsos",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "word": "Ἀχίλλεια νῆσος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "Drómon Akhilléōs",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "word": "Δρόμον Ἀχιλλέως"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "Akhílleios drómos",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "word": "Ἀχίλλειος δρόμος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "word": "Kígyó-sziget"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ズミイヌイとう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Zumiinui tō",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "word": "ズミイヌイ島"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Jeumiiniseom",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "word": "즈미이니섬"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Gyvačių sala"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Wyspa Wężowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ilha da Serpente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Insula Șerpilor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Zmeínyj",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Змеи́ный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "óstrov Zmeínyj",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "о́стров Змеи́ный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Zmeínyj óstrov",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Змеи́ный о́стров"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "isla de las Serpientes"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "word": "Yılan Adası"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "Zmijínyj",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Змії́ний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "óstriv Zmijínyj",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "о́стрів Змії́ний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "Zmijínyj óstriv",
      "sense": "Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Змії́ний о́стрів"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Defense Mapping Agency",
    "en:Snake Island",
    "en:Snake Island (Black Sea)"
  ],
  "word": "Snake Island"
}

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