isle
pronunciation
How to pronounce isle in British English:
UK [aɪl]
How to pronounce isle in American English:
US [aɪl]
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- Noun:
- a small island
Word Origin
- isle (n.)
- late 13c., from Old French ile, earlier isle, from Latin insula "island," of uncertain origin, perhaps (as the Ancients guessed) from in salo "(that which is) in the sea," from ablative of salum "the open sea." The -s- was restored first in French, then in English in the late 1500s.
Example
- 1. There 's excellent snorkeling , kayaking , biking-plus a sprawling isle to explore beyond the property , ideally with a professional guide .
- 2. Like the emerald isle , they have bitten the bullet of " internal devaluation " , regaining competitiveness by cutting wages and prices , rather than taking the easy option of depreciating the currency , or borrowing recklessly as greece has .
- 3. But dr. sallenger said the practically featureless topography of isle derniere had never matched his idea of what a beach should look like .
- 4. 1941 : A man adjusts a wind electric generator on the calf of man , a small island off the southern tip of the isle of man
- 5. There are few issues so sensitive in this sceptred and now multicultural isle as immigration , and population pressure is in many quarters a concealed way of talking about it .