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isla
/ˈilə/
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What does isla mean?
proper noun
- A river in Angus and Perth and Kinross, east-central Scotland, tributary to the Tay.
- A river in Moray and Aberdeenshire, north-eastern Scotland, tributary to the Deveron.
- A female given name transferred from the place name. Coined in the twentieth century from an archaic spelling of Islay, an island in the Hebrides.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- A surname from Spanish.
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The neighbouring hills, and those of Alegranza and Isla Clara, were scarcely above one hundred or one hundred and twenty toises.
Seeing that they persisted in coming nearer, I fired the second shot so close to the chap who wanted to "yammerschooner" that he changed his mind quickly enough and bellowed with fear, "Bueno jo via Isla," and sitting down in his canoe, he rubbed his starboard cat-head for some time.