Treasure Island

noun

1. (italics) a novel (1883) by R. L. Stevenson.
2. an artificial island in San Francisco Bay, in W California; naval base.

Treasure Island

1. (1883) A novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about a young boy, Jim Hawkins, who joins with two men in hiring a ship to search for buried treasure. Among the ship's crew are the pirate Long John Silver and his men, who are after the treasure for themselves. With considerable pluck, and the aid of his friends, Jim foils their plans and gains the treasure.

Example Sentences

Where to stay: The Crystal Cove Beach Cottages are a charming collection of 1920s and 1930s cottages and the site of such Hollywood films as 1920’s “Treasure Island.”

From Los Angeles Times

Just steps from the exclusive Montage Resort, where an ocean view room costs upwards of $1,000 per night during the summer, waste was overflowing from trash cans on Treasure Island beach.

From Los Angeles Times

And they’re companies in the theatrical sense too, in that the characters can play other characters while remaining themselves, as in “Muppet Treasure Island” and “A Muppet Christmas Carol.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Mirage’s opening kicked off a resort building and remodeling spree that included the debut of the Circus Circus’ Excalibur in June 1990, the $250-million renovation of Caesars Palace and the opening of Treasure Island in 1994.

From Los Angeles Times

“My introduction to California came in 1965 when I was en route to Japan, and ultimately Vietnam, compliments of the United States Marine Corps. As a young man who had grown up in rural Arkansas, I was apart from my wife and young son for a questionable cause. While housed in bachelor officers’ quarters on Treasure Island, I heard for the first time Tony Bennett’s “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”

From New York Times