• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊl/, /kɔʊl/
  • (doll–dole merger) IPA^(key): /kɒl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊl/
• Homophones: coal, kohl
• Rhymes: -əʊl

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From Middle English cole, col, from Old English cawel, an early Germanic borrowing from Latin caulis (“cabbage”). Cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohl, Danish kål, Norwegian Bokmål kål, Norwegian Nynorsk kål, Swedish kål. Doublet of caulis, gobi, and kale.

cole (usually uncountable, plural coles)

1. Cabbage.
2. Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

cole (plural coles)

1. (Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39:

     Father saw the happening from high in a park where the hay was cut and they set the swathes in coles, and he swore out Damn't to hell! and started to run […]

cole (countable and uncountable, plural coles)

1. Obsolete form of coal.

• cole-prophet (etymologically unrelated)

• LCOE, -coel, ecol., coel-, Cloe, Coel, Cleo

cole

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of colar

Borrowed from English cold.

cole

1. cold

• waum

• cōle sick

cole

1. winter
2. year

• (antonym(s) of “winter”): waum

cole

1. third-person singular present indicative of colere

• celo, celò

cole

1. second-person singular present active imperative of colō

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɔlɛ/, [ˈt͡sɔlə]

cole

1. inflection of coło:
   1. locative singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

From cole (“cold”).

• IPA^(key): /koːl/

cole (uncountable)

1. coldness, coolness

• English: cool
• Yola: cool

• “cọ̄l, n.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

cole

1. alternative form of coule

cole m (plural coles)

1. alternative form of cúli

cole

1. inflection of colar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “cole”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cole”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• col, coll, coal, coil, kyle, koll, koil, koal, kole, kale, cuile, quile, queyle

Uncertain; possibly from Old French coillir (Modern French cueillir) or Old Norse kollr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkol/, /ˈkɔl/, /ˈkel/
• (Central Scots)
  • (North East Central Scots)
    • (Perth) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/
    • (Stirling) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
  • (West Central Scots)
    • (Argyll) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/
    • (North Ayrshire) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
    • (Renfrewshire) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
  • (South West Central Scots)
    • (South Ayrshire) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
    • (Kirkcudbright) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): /ˈkəil/
  • (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːl/
  • (Selkirk) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/

cole (plural coles)

1. (archaic, agriculture) A haycock, hayrick, bundle of straw.

cole (third-person singular simple present coles, present participle colein, simple past and past participle colet)

1. (archaic, agriculture) To put hay in a cole.

• coltar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkole/ [ˈko.le]
• Rhymes: -ole
• Syllabification: co‧le

Clipping of colegio.

cole m (plural coles)

1. (colloquial) school
   • 2020 April 26, “Los niños salen por fin de casa: “No me acuerdo de pedalear””, in El País‎^[1]:

     Pero como lo que más echo de menos es el cole, pues he ido con mi padre a ver la puerta del colegio, aunque estaba cerrada y ha sido un poco triste porque tengo muchísimas ganas de ver a mis amigas", cuenta Claudia, de ocho años.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

cole

1. inflection of colar (“to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)”):
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “cole”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

cole

1. alternative form of coale

• 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 31

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