noun
Meaning 1
A small island.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- There is an islet on the other side of this body of water.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: eyot, holm
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
islet
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈaɪ.lət/
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homophone: eyelet
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rhymes with -aɪlət
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CMU ARPABET: AY1 L IH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a small island
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: isle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: island
Narrower terms: Perejil, Wight, Isle of Wight
History
Etymology
From Middle French islette. By surface analysis, is(le) + -let. Mostly displaced native Middle English eyt, eit and Middle English holm, holme (See eyot and holm for more).
Across languages
Translations
73 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: جُزَيِّرَة (juzayyira) — small island
- Breton: enezig — small island
- Burmese: ကျွန်းကလေး (kywan:ka.le:) — small island
- Catalan: illot — small island
- Chinese Cantonese: 小島 /小岛 (siu2 dou2) — small island
- Chinese Mandarin: 小島 /小岛 (xiǎo dǎo) — small island
- Czech: ostrůvek — small island
- Danish: holm — small island
- Danish: skær — small island
- Dhivehi: ފުށި (fuṣi) — small island
- Dutch: eilandje — small island
- Esperanto: insuleto — small island
- Finnish: luoto — small island
- Finnish: pieni saari — small island
- French: îlot — small island
- French: ilot — small island
- Galician: illeu — small island
- Galician: illote — small island
- Galician: insua — small island
- German: Werder — small island
- German: Flussinsel — small island
- German: Holm — small island
- German: Eiland — small island
- German: Inselchen — small island
- German: kleine Insel — small island
- Greek: νησίδα (nisída) — small island
- Greek: νησάκι (nisáki) — small island
- Ancient Greek: νησύδριον (nēsúdrion) — small island
- Ancient Greek: νησίδιον (nēsídion) — small island
- Ancient Greek: νησίον (nēsíon) — small island
- Ancient Greek: νησίς (nēsís) — small island
- Gujarati: દ્વીપિકાr (dvīpikār) — small island
- Hindi: द्वीपिका (dvīpikā) — small island
- Hungarian: szigetecske — small island
- Ido: insuleto — small island
- Interlingua: insuletta — small island
- Irish: oileáinín — small island
- Italian: isolotto — small island
- Italian: isoletta — small island
- Japanese: 小島 (kojima) — small island
- Old Javanese: gili — small island
- Kazakh: аралшық (aralşyq) — small island
- Korean: 소도 (sodo) — small island
- Northern Kurdish: giravok — small island
- Malayalam: ചെറുദ്വീപ് (ceṟudvīpŭ) — small island
- Malayalam: തുരുത്ത് (turuttŭ) — small island
- Manx: insheen — small island
- Manx: ellaneen — small island
- Manx: innis — small island
- Marshallese: āne — small island
- Norwegian Bokmål: holme — small island
- Polish: wysepka — small island
- Portuguese: ilhota — small island
- Portuguese: ínsua — small island
- Portuguese: ilhéu — small island
- Rapa Nui: motu — small island
- Russian: острово́к (ostrovók) — small island
- Serbo-Croatian: оточић — small island
- Serbo-Croatian: острвце — small island
- Serbo-Croatian: otočić — small island
- Serbo-Croatian: ostrvce — small island
- Slovene: otoček — small island
- Spanish: islote — small island
- Spanish: isleta — small island
- Spanish: mejana — small island
- Swedish: holme — small island
- Swedish: skär — small island
- Swedish: kobbe — small island
- Tongan: motu — small island
- Turkish: adacık — small island
- Ukrainian: остріве́ць (ostrivécʹ) — small island
- Vietnamese: cù lao — small island
- Welsh: ynysig — small island
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