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4-letter words (4 found)

DELO,DOLE,LODE,OLDE,

3-letter words (9 found)

DEL,DOE,DOL,ELD,LED,LOD,ODE,OLD,OLE,

2-letter words (7 found)

DE,DO,ED,EL,LO,OD,OE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 21 words from dole according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dole

dole odle dloe ldoe olde lode doel odel deol edol oedl eodl dleo ldeo delo edlo ledo eldo oled loed oeld eold leod elod

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Definitions and meaning of dole

dole

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dəʊl/, /dɔʊl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dol/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl
  • Homophone: dhole

Etymology 1

From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal.

Verb

dole (third-person singular simple present doles, present participle doling, simple past and past participle doled)

  1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
Derived terms
  • dole out
Translations

Noun

dole

  1. Money or other goods given as charity.
  2. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
    • c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising
      At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.
  3. (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
    Synonyms: (UK) pancrack, (Canada) pogey
  4. A boundary; a landmark.
  5. (British, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
Derived terms

(payment to support the unemployed):

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English doell (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.

Noun

dole (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A sorrow or grief; dolour.
  2. (law, Scotland) Dolus.

Anagrams

  • Delo, Deol, Doel, Ledo, OLED, leod, lode, olde

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdolɛ]

Etymology 1

Adverb

dole

  1. down (at a lower place or position)
    Antonym: nahoře
Related terms
See also
  • vlevo
  • vpravo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

dole m

  1. vocative/locative singular of důl

Further reading

  • dole in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • dole in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • dole in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch

Verb

dole

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of dolen

Anagrams

  • doel

French

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: dolent, doles

Verb

dole

  1. inflection of doler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

dolē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of doleō

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔlɛ/, [ˈdɔlə]

Noun

dole

  1. locative singular of doł

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.lɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlɛ
  • Syllabification: do‧le

Noun

dole f

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of dola

Noun

dole m inan

  1. locative/vocative singular of dół

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • dȍlje (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dôle/
  • Hyphenation: do‧le

Adverb

dȍle (Cyrillic spelling до̏ле)

  1. down
  2. below

Interjection

dȍle (Cyrillic spelling до̏ле)

  1. down

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl, from Proto-Germanic *dailą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔːɫ/

Noun

dole

  1. deal
    Synonym: daal

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36

Zazaki

Alternative forms

  • dol

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [doˈlə]
  • Hyphenation: do‧le

Noun

dole f

  1. A lake.

See also

  • gol

Source: wiktionary.org