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Fire Island

Fire Island proper noun: the large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the south shore of Long Island, New York, United States.

Proper noun

Fire Island

  1. The large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the south shore of Long Island, New York, United States.
    • He stole his first Fire Island commission from another architect by seducing the clients, with whom he briefly formed a throuple. […] As Fire Island’s reputation grew, so did the fame of its residents. In 1977, after divorcing his first wife, Calvin Klein bought one of Gifford’s beachfront homes.2025 June 11, Oliver Wainwright, “‘Made for sex’: the hedonistic party palaces of New York’s Fire Island – and the blond bombshell who made them”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original...

Origin of Fire Island

Perhaps from a misinterpretation of Dutch vijf (“five”) or vier (“four”), referring to the number of islands.

Questions about Fire Island

What does Fire Island mean?
Fire Island means the large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the south shore of Long Island, New York, United States.
What part of speech is Fire Island?
Fire Island is a proper noun.

Words near Fire Island in the dictionary

  1. fire inspectors
  2. fire insurance
  3. fire into the sun
  4. fire iron
  5. fire irons
  6. Fire Island
  7. fire lance
  8. fire lances
  9. fire lane
  10. fire lanes
  11. fire lilies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Fire Island (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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