Cole

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /kəʊl/, /kɔʊl/
• US IPA: /koÊŠl/
• also IPA: /klÌ©/
• Homophones: cull
• Homophones: coal, kohl
• Rhymes: -əʊl

From Middle English, from Old English cāwel, from Germanic, from Latin caulis ("cabbage"). Cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohl

Full definition of cole

Noun

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

Derived terms

• coleseed
• coleslaw

Related terms

• colewort

Noun

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

Anagrams

• Cloe