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isle
[ ahyl ]
noun
- a small island.
- any island.
verb (used with object)
- to make into or as if into an isle.
- to place on or as if on an isle.
isle
/ aɪl /
noun
- an island, esp a small one: used in literature and (when cap.) in place names
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- isleless adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of isle1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of isle1
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Example Sentences
Regardless, that goes double for a hippy isle full of expats and pungent pot known as Bocas del Toro.
Yet another example is Belle Isle, a gorgeous 982-acre gem floating in the Detroit River.
Diana found to have Irish ancestry - so will William, Kate and baby George now visit the Emerald Isle?
Lest you forget our planet has a molten core, this volatile Italian isle will set you straight.
He was living on his own in a comfortable apartment on the Isle St Louis.
He and his wife seated themselves at table one Tuesday evening, a few weeks after their return from Grand Isle.
Monsieur Ratignolle was delighted to see her, though he found her looking not so well as at Grand Isle, and he advised a tonic.
One afternoon early in the year 1889 two gentlemen from the Isle of Man called upon me at my office.
Edna was sobbing, just as she had wept one midnight at Grand Isle when strange, new voices awoke in her.
On rainy or melancholy days Edna went out and sought the society of the friends she had made at Grand Isle.
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