half-island

English

Alternative forms

• half island

Etymology

From half- +‎ island. Compare German Halbinsel (“peninsula”, literally “half-island”), Latin paeninsula (“peninsula”, literally “almost-island”).

Noun

half-island (plural half-islands)

1. A piece of land which is "halfway" an island; a byland; peninsula.
   • 2005, Edward A. Olsen, Korea, the Divided Nation:

     Because of its half-island identity, the Korean peninsula has instilled among those who live along its coasts and on some of the over three thousand mostly small offshore islands, a long-term interest in fisheries.

   • 2010, Martin Abroquah Akanba, Revelation: The Movement of the Akan People from Kanaan to Ghana:

     For some time, the Midianites controlled part of the AraBa territories of Negeb desert and the half Island of Sinai.

   • 2011, Marita Nummikoski, Troika:

     Therefore, полуóстров is а half-island, or peninsula. Incidentally, the word peninsula is formed in the same way, from the Latin words раеnе (almost) and insula (island).

   • 2011, Robert D. Kaplan, Monsoon‎, page 284:

     Here the Chinese navy sees little but trouble and frustration in what Chinese strategists call the First Island Chain, which, going from north to south, comprises Japan and the Ryuku^{[sic – meaning Ryukyu]} Islands, the “half-island” of the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, [...]

2. An area of land occupying part or half of an island.
   • 2003, Eugenio Matibag, Haitian-Dominican counterpoint:

     Yunen finds the "study of the half-island" to be no better than a "half-study," one whose artificially narrow scope blocks the understanding of shared problems and the finding of shared solutions.