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27 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. isle
  2. Isle of Wight disease
  3. Isle au Haut
  4. Isle of Anglesey
  5. Isle of Avalon
  6. Isle of Ely
  7. Isle of Man
  8. Isle of Pines
  9. Isle of Wight
  10. Isle Royale
  11. Belle Isle cress
  12. Fair Isle
  13. Avalon, Isle of
  14. Ely, Isle of
  15. Man, Isle of
  16. Meroë, Isle of
  17. Pines, Isle of
  18. Presque Isle
  19. Purbeck, Isle of
  20. Thanet, Isle of
  21. Wight, Isle of
  22. Youth, Isle of
  23. half island
  24. safety island
  25. Belle Isle, Strait of
  26. Cambridgeshire
  27. Ile des Pins

1isle

noun \ˈī(-ə)l\

Definition of ISLE

: island; especially : islet 1
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Examples of ISLE

  1. <the Australian seas are rife with uninhabited isles>

Origin of ISLE

Middle English, from Anglo-French ile, isle, from Latin insula
First Known Use: 13th century

Related to ISLE

Synonyms
island, islet

2isle

transitive verb
isledisl·ing

Definition of ISLE

1
: to make an isle of
2
: to place on or as if on an isle

First Known Use of ISLE

circa 1576

Rhymes with ISLE

dial, file, pile, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, trial, while, wile

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