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isle

nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//aɪ̯l//

An island, usually very small. Compare with islet.

noun

  1. 1

    An island, usually very small. Compare with islet.

Etymology

From Middle English ile, yle (with s added, similar to English island), borrowed from Old French ille, idle, isle, from Latin insula. Not related to island. Doublet of insula.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of aisleobsoleteObsolete spelling of aisle.

Forms

plural
isles
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).