Usually means: Isolated from outside cultural influences.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word insular:

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  1. insular: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. insular: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insular: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insular: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insular: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insular, insular: Wordnik
  7. insular: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insular: Wiktionary
  9. insular: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insular: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. insular: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. insular: Dictionary.com
  13. insular: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. insular: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Insular: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Insular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. insular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. insular: Rhymezone
  19. Insular: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. insular: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. insular: Free Dictionary
  22. insular: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. insular: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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  1. insular: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. insular: Medical dictionary

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  1. Insular: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See insularism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or being, pertaining to, situated on, or resembling an island or islands.
adjective:  Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little regard for others opinions or prejudices; provincial.
adjective:  Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
adjective:  (anatomy) Relating to the insula in the brain.
adjective:  (biochemistry) Relating to insulin.
adjective:  (linguistics, anthropology) (often with a capital letter) Relating to the varieties of a language or languages spoken chiefly on islands. Insular Latin, Latin as it was spoken in Britain and Ireland. Insular Celtic, the Celtic languages of Britain, Ireland and also Brittany, as opposed to those spoken in mainland Europe other than Brittany. Insular Scandinavian, relating to the Icelandic and Faroese languages as opposed to the ones spoken in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
noun:  An islander.

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