isle
[ ahyl ]
/ aɪl /
noun
a small island.
any island.
verb (used with object), isled, isl·ing.
to make into or as if into an isle.
to place on or as if on an isle.
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Origin of isle
1250–1300; Middle English i(s)le<Old French <Latin īnsula
OTHER WORDS FROM isle
isleless, adjectiveWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH isle
aisle, I'll, isle Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Words related to isle
reef,
archipelago,
enclave,
islet,
peninsula,
atoll,
bar,
cay,
haven,
key,
refuge,
retreat,
sanctuary,
shelter,
ait How to use isle in a sentence
MacDonald mans the office despite being—like most of the rest of the Western Isles, it seems—in his 70s.
Conceptually, the “Angel of Death” was a cultural mainstay in continental Europe and the British Isles by the late Middle Ages.
Disney-star-turned-'Rizzoli & Isles'-actor Lee Thompson Young died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday.
But by 1920, American per-capita GDP exceeded that of the British Isles.
You can see it in the empty canned food, rice, and bread isles at the grocery store.
At the close of the reception a band of Philippine musicians played a selection of graceful airs of their native isles.
On the 7th of August we neared the Canary Isles, but unfortunately, on account of the thick fog, we could not see them.
In truth, the art of tobacco using is nowhere more ignored, nowhere more contemptuously neglected than in these 'favored isles.'
Bruce may have taken refuge again in Glen Trool; Gray's mention of the isles may result from a confusion with earlier events.
The king, her father, only lingered five more days, and on his death the tiny infant became Queen of Scotland and the Isles.
British Dictionary definitions for isle
noun
an island, esp a small one: used in literature and (when cap.) in place names
Word Origin for isle
C13: from Old French isle, from Latin insula island
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