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The definition of an isle is an island, particularly a small one.

(noun)

An example of an isle is one of the tiny islands in the island nation of the Philippine Islands.

See isle in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an island, esp., a small island: poetic except as part of a place name

Origin: ME ile < OFr ile, earlier isle < ML isla, contr. < L insula < ? (terra) in salo, (land) in the sea < salum, sea: the form isle became general in the Renaissance, infl. by L insula

See isle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun Abbr. I.

An island, especially a small one.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English ile

Origin: , from Old French isle

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *īsula

Origin: , from Latin īnsula

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