Kodiak n 1: an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784 [syn: {Kodiak Island}] 2: brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia [syn: {Alaskan brown bear}, {Kodiak bear}, {Ursus middendorffi}, {Ursus arctos middendorffi}]