"islet" meaning in English

See islet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈaɪ.lət/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-islet.wav Forms: islets [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪlət Etymology: From Middle French islette. By surface analysis, isle + -let. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|islette}} Middle French islette, {{surf|en|isle|-let}} By surface analysis, isle + -let Head templates: {{en-noun}} islet (plural islets)
  1. A small island. Categories (place): Landforms Synonyms: eyot Translations (small island): νησύδριον (nēsúdrion) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), جُزَيِّرَة (juzayyira) (Arabic), ကျွန်းကလေး (kywan:ka.le:) (Burmese), illot [masculine] (Catalan), 小島 (Chinese Cantonese), 小岛 (siu² dou²) (Chinese Cantonese), 小島 (Chinese Mandarin), 小岛 (xiǎo dǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), ostrůvek [masculine] (Czech), ފުށި (fuṣi) (Dhivehi), eilandje (Dutch), insuleto (Esperanto), luoto (Finnish), pieni saari (Finnish), îlot [masculine] (French), ilot [alternative, masculine] (French), illeu [masculine] (Galician), illote [masculine] (Galician), insua [feminine] (Galician), Werder (note: neuter is rarer) [masculine, neuter] (German), Flussinsel [feminine] (German), Holm [German, Northern, masculine] (German), Eiland (German), Inselchen [neuter] (German), kleine Insel [feminine] (German), νησίδα (nisída) [feminine] (Greek), νησάκι (nisáki) [neuter] (Greek), દ્વીપિકાr (dvīpikār) (Gujarati), द्वीपिका (dvīpikā) (Hindi), szigetecske (Hungarian), insuleto (Ido), insuletta (Interlingua), oileáinín [masculine] (Irish), isolotto [masculine] (Italian), isoletta [feminine] (Italian), 小島 (kojima) (alt: こじま) (Japanese), аралшық (aralşyq) (Kazakh), 소도 (sodo) (alt: 小島) (Korean), insheen [masculine] (Manx), ellaneen [masculine] (Manx), innis [feminine] (Manx), giravok (Northern Kurdish), holme (Norwegian Bokmål), gili (Old Javanese), wysepka [feminine] (Polish), ilhota [feminine] (Portuguese), ínsua [feminine] (Portuguese), ilhéu [masculine] (Portuguese), motu (Rapa Nui), острово́к (ostrovók) [masculine] (Russian), оточић [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), острвце [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), otočić [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ostrvce [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), otoček [masculine] (Slovene), islote [masculine] (Spanish), isleta [feminine] (Spanish), mejana [feminine] (Spanish), holme [common-gender] (Swedish), skär [neuter] (Swedish), kobbe [common-gender] (Swedish), motu (Tongan), adacık (Turkish), остріве́ць (ostrivécʹ) (Ukrainian), cù lao (Vietnamese), ynysig [feminine] (Welsh)
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  2. (biology) An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function. Categories (topical): Biology
    Sense id: en-islet-en-noun-D8v9S8kb Topics: biology, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: islet of Langerhans Related terms: islets of Langerhans

Inflected forms

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      ],
      "word": "острвце"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "small island",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "otočić"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "small island",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ostrvce"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "small island",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "otoček"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small island",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "islote"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small island",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "isleta"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small island",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mejana"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small island",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "holme"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small island",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "skär"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small island",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kobbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "to",
      "lang": "Tongan",
      "sense": "small island",
      "word": "motu"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small island",
      "word": "adacık"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ostrivécʹ",
      "sense": "small island",
      "word": "остріве́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "small island",
      "word": "cù lao"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "small island",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ynysig"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "islet"
  ],
  "word": "islet"
}

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