isle

noun

\ ˈī(-ə)l

plural isles

Definition of isle

(Entry 1 of 2)

: 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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Examples of isle in a Sentence

Noun the Australian seas are rife with uninhabited isles

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun That preoccupation with water has now become critical as severe drought grips California and its Channel Islands — a rugged, eight-isle archipelago that hosts several human outposts and a handful of species that exist nowhere else on Earth. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022 Below, Missoni’s travel tips for the under-the-radar Greek isle. — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022 Loyola Marymount University’s summer-long Shakespeare on the Bluff festival continues with the Bard’s fantastical fable about a deposed duke and his young daughter stranded on a magical isle. — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022 The three-week race has two more stages in Denmark this weekend, including crossing the Great Belt Bridge that links the Zealand island, where Copenhagen sits and the central isle of Funen. — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 1 July 2022 But today the sceptered isle is more septic island. — Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 June 2022 Below are nine new properties across Europe, from the isle of Capri to Vienna. — Laura Neilson, WSJ, 21 June 2022 The real-life correlate of Circe's isle is a singular place, with a beauty that is still almost completely sylvan. — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022 As a long answer to a short question, there are indeed many very cool sounds and ideas that are new to the isle that players will explore in The Delicious Last Course. — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 15 June 2022 See More

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