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bole¹
- /bol/ US
- /bəʊl/ UK
- /bɒʊl/ UK
- /bɒl/
Sounds like bowl · Rhymes with -əʊl
Where it comes from
From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).
noun boles
- The trunk or stem of a tree. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean / Upon the dusky brushwood underneath / Their broad curved branches, fledged with clearest green, / New from its silken sheath.
bole²
- /bol/ US
- /bəʊl/ UK
- /bɒʊl/ UK
- /bɒl/
Sounds like bowl · Rhymes with -əʊl
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.
noun boles
- Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. Good Iznik has strong colours well-contained within their outlines and a very clean, clear white. The red colour, made with Armenian bole (an earthy clay) should be thick and proud of the surface.
- The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- A bolus; a dose. […]or else[…]the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.
bole³
- /bol/ US
- /bəʊl/ UK
- /bɒʊl/ UK
- /bɒl/
Sounds like bowl · Rhymes with -əʊl
noun boles
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure). Take then good Barley newly thrashed and well purged from the Chaff, and put thereof eight Boles, that is about ſix English Quarters, in a Stone - trough
bole⁴
- /bol/ US
- /bəʊl/ UK
- /bɒʊl/ UK
- /bɒl/
Sounds like bowl · Rhymes with -əʊl
noun boles
- An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light. "Open the bole," said the old woman firmly and hastily to her daughter-in-law, “open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin[…].
- A small closet.
Bole⁵
proper noun
- A Chadic language native to Nigeria.
Bole⁶
Where it comes from
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 博樂 /博乐 (Bólè).
proper noun Po-lo
- A county-level city of Bortala prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China. As September gets under way, the fields and open country of southern Xinjiang, stretching from Turpan through Korla, Aksu and Kashi to Hotan, as well as the northern country areas from Manas and Shihu westwards across to Bole (Bortala), are all abloom with silvery, snow-white blossoms.
Bole⁷
Where it comes from
Uncertain. Theories include derivation from Akan bɔro (bōro, “sweet”), Nuer bɛɛl (bōl, “grape”), and Gonja bɔl (bōl, “submission”).
proper noun
- A town in Ghana.
Bole⁸
Where it comes from
From earlier Bolle, ultimately from either the dative singular bolde or dative plural boldum of bold (“house”); the latter is perhaps suggested by its attestation in the Domesday Book as Medieval Latin Bolun.
proper noun
- A village and civil parish of Nottinghamshire, England.
Bole⁹
proper noun Boles
- A surname.
Translations
Talk about this word "bole." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bole. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. bole. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bole "bole." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bole.Cite this
@misc{bole_2026,
title = {bole},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bole},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
