isle

noun

\ ˈī(-ə)l

plural isles

Definition of isle

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: island Pacific isles Steering with due course toward the isle of Rhodes …— William Shakespeare especially : a small island : islet I once lived on the … island of Antiparos, a tiny isle behind Paros. — Emily Prager Islay is a small Hebridean isle, some 25 miles in length, with a population of less than 4,000, yet it boasts eight of the oldest and most famous distilleries in Scotland. — Henry Shukman

isle

verb

isled; isling

Definition of isle (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb

1 : to make an isle of

2 : to place on or as if on an isle

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Synonyms for isle

Synonyms: Noun

island,
islet

Examples of isle in a Sentence

Noun the Australian seas are rife with uninhabited isles

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun But ownership of the island has passed to La Maddalena national park authorities, who are evicting Morandi and turning the small isle into an environmental education destination. — Andrews Mcmeel Syndication, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021 The Duchess of Cambridge is a longtime fan of the fair isle sweater. — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 27 Apr. 2021 Italy is set to start a mass vaccination campaign Friday on some of its small, remote islands with few residents and limited health care services, though one isle jumped the gun and got most of its adults inoculated on its own. — Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021 The brothers and former MLW tag-team champions, who live and train on Hawaii’s northern isle of Kauai, look forward to the prospect of wrestling again in Texas as the pandemic allows. — Dallas News, 4 May 2021 Rising a mere 3,000 feet above the waves of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the seemingly diminutive volcanic isle is famed for its near-continuous summit explosions. — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021 The specter of Locke, and of the Scottish Enlightenment that followed him, held more and more sway over the sceptered isle with the passing of the years since the Glorious Revolution of 1688. — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 23 Apr. 2021 Despite the pleasantries, tensions on the isle are on the rise. — NBC News, 20 Apr. 2021 Getting to Governors Island only takes a quick ferry ride, but the isle between Manhattan and Brooklyn feels like a trip to another time. — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2021

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