poles

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See also: Poles and pôles

English

Pronunciation

Noun

poles

  1. plural of pole
    The distance between the poles was three feet.

Verb

poles

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pole

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + feminine plural article les (“the”).

Contraction

poles f pl (masculine sg pol, feminine sg pola, neuter sg polo, masculine plural polos)

  1. for the, by the

Galician

Verb

poles

  1. second-person singular present indicative of pulir

Indonesian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch polijst, polijsten, from Old French poliss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of polir, from Latin polīre (“to polish, make smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive, strike, thrust”), from the notion of fulling cloth.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpo.lɛs/
  • Rhymes: -lɛs
  • Hyphenation: po‧les

Noun

poles (plural poles-poles, first-person possessive polesku, second-person possessive polesmu, third-person possessive polesnya)

  1. polish: a substance used to polish.

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Spanish

Noun

poles m pl

  1. plural of pole

Verb

poles

  1. second-person singular present indicative of polir
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