Definitions for Isle
aɪlisle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. isle, isletnoun

   a small island

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 5 votes

1. islenoun

   An island.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Islenoun

   Etymology: isle, French; insula, Latin.

   1. An island; a country surrounded by water.

   Is it not an easy matter
   To make lord William Hastings of our mind,
   For the instalment of this noble duke
   In the seat royal of this famous isle? William Shakespeare, R. III.

   The dreadful fight
   Betwixt a nation and two whales I write:
   Seas stain'd with gore I sing, advent'rous toil,
   And how these monsters did disarm an isle. Edmund Waller.

   2. [Written, I think, corruptly for aile, from aile, French, from ala, Latin, the aile being probably at first only a wing or side walk. It may come likewise from allee, French, a walk.]A long walk in a church, or publick building.

   O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves,
   Long sounding isles and intermingled graves,
   Black melancholy sits. Alexander Pope.

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1. isle

   An isle is a small island or a piece of land surrounded by water. It is often used in literature or poetic contexts.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Islenoun

   see Aisle

2. Islenoun

   an island

3. Islenoun

   a spot within another of a different color, as upon the wings of some insects

4. Isleverb

   to cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island

5. Etymology: [OF. isle, F. le, L. insula; cf. Lith. sala. Cf. Insulate.]

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. Isle

   Isle is a city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 751 at the 2010 census. Its name in the Ojibwe language is "Chi-minising", due to being located right by Malone Island of Mille Lacs Lake, the largest island of that lake.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Isle

   īl, n. an island.—ns. Isles′man, an islander, esp. an inhabitant of the Hebrides; Islet (ī′let), a little isle. [M. E. ile, yle—O. Fr. isle (Fr. île)—L. insula, considered to be so called because lying in salo, in the main sea, L. salum being akin to Gr. salos, the main sea.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. isle

   A colloquial abbreviation of island.

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1. ISLE

   What does ISLE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the ISLE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

2. Isle

   Aisle vs. Isle -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Aisle and Isle.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ISLE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Isle is ranked #63524 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Isle surname appeared 314 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Isle.
   
   94.9% or 298 total occurrences were White.
   1.5% or 5 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Island

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Isle' in Nouns Frequency: #1714

Anagrams for Isle »

1. leis

2. lies

3. Lise

4. sile

5. Sile

How to pronounce Isle?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Isle in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Isle in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Isle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Isle in a Sentence

1. Elena Mera Long:

   People say: 'What do you do all day on such a small island?' they must be joking. Everybody on Fair Isle works like beavers, and there's never a dull moment. It's a model for a good community. I doubt if there's a more harmonious one anywhere.

2. Tommy Potter:

   Isle of Wight County, it is a great place to live, to work, to raise kids, this is a small, tight-knight community. We are an oasis… We don’t have a lot of murders. When something like this happens, especially when it goes unsolved for this long, it does shake the foundation a little bit. People want to know if someone’s trying to take advantage of our quiet way of life here. The field had to have been known by somebody… It kind of reminds people this can happen here. This kind of gruesome crime, it can happen in our backyards.

3. Christopher Barker:

   Compton Bay is a famous site for dinosaur fossils on the Isle of Wight. Most of these come from the older Wessex Formation, which was teaming with dinosaurs, our spinosaurs are indeed from the Vectis Formation, and bones( dinosaurs or otherwise) are rare in that formation( which is made up of several rock layers).

4. John Milton:

   When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well

5. William Shakespeare:

   This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Isle
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Isle
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Isle
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Isle
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Isle
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Isle
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Isle
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html