traffic island

noun

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Advertisement Barbara Hepworth, ‘Four-Square (Walk Through)’ 1966, bronze The traffic island at the Simon’s entry is dominated by Hepworth’s monumental, 14-foot-tall sculpture, which harnesses the traditional figurative material of bronze for the very different purposes of geometric abstraction. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024 With the old stadium headed for demolition, it was placed on a grassy traffic island at the foot of a Manhattan exit ramp — a lonely greeter, to a mostly empty island. John Branch, New York Times, 2 May 2024 Monarch butterflies flutter frequently over a series of traffic islands at the entrance to the Pacheco Valle neighborhood in Novato. Giuseppe Ricapito, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024 Ali, 32, his wife, and two children, a 1-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter, were seated on the curb of a traffic island close to the Weidler Street exit ramp from Interstate 5. oregonlive, 11 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for traffic island 

Word History

First Known Use

1911, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of traffic island was in 1911

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“Traffic island.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traffic%20island. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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