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noun
1.
a small island.
2.
any island.
verb (used with object)
3.
to make into or as if into an isle.
4.
to place on or as if on an isle.
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- That's consistent with the children's food isle in your local supermarket being smaller than the pet food isle.
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Word Origin & History
isle
late 13c., from O.Fr. ile, earlier isle, from L. insula "island," of uncertain origin, perhaps from fem. of adj. *en-salos "in the sea," from salum "sea." The -s- was restored first in M.Fr., then in Eng. in the late 1500s. Dim. form islet is first recorded 1530s, from M.Fr. islette.
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