different between bole vs commoner

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bo?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??l/, /b??l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophone: bowl

Etymology 1

From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).

Noun

bole (plural boles)

1. The trunk or stem of a tree.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women, in Poems, Volume 1, page 188,

     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.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     A fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle in its touch, and the black boles of the trees showed up in a light that seemed to come from below.

Translations

Etymology 2

Ancient Greek ????? (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.

Noun

bole (plural boles)

1. 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.
2. (colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.

3. (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
   • 1649, Jeremy Taylor, An Apology for Authorized and Set Forms of Liturgy Against the Pretence of the Spirit, 1849, Charles Page Eden (editor), The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., Volume V, page 294,

     […] or else […] the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.

Etymology 3

Noun

bole (plural boles)

1. Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).

Etymology 4

Noun

bole (plural boles)

1. (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
   • 1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary, 1862, Adam and Charles Black, page 220,

     "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 […] .

2. (Scotland) A small closet.

Anagrams

• Lebo, Loeb, lobe

Albanian

Alternative forms

• bolle

Etymology

Variant of bolle. Occurs exclusively in the plural form.

Noun

bole ?

1. testicles

Related terms

• bile
• ballë
• mbjell
• pjell

Buol

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b????/

Noun

bole

1. house

Czech

Alternative forms

• boleje (verb)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bol?]
• Rhymes: -ol?
• Hyphenation: bo?le

Noun

bole

1. vocative singular of bol

Verb

bole

1. present masculine singular transgressive of bolet

Dama (Sierra Leone)

Etymology

Perhaps related to Vai [script needed] (boi, “structure without walls”) or Mende bolo (“courthouse with high walls”) (having the definite form bolei.

Noun

bole

1. courthouse

References

• Dalby, T. D. P. (1963) , “The extinct language of Dama”, in Sierra Leone Language Review, volume 2, Freetown: Fourah Bay College, pages 50–54

Latvian

Etymology

From English bowl, probably via German Bowle. Alternative historical forms: bols. First attested use to mean a bowl for making punch – 1880. First attested use to refer to the beverage itself – 1886.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b??le]

Noun

bole f (5th declension)

1. (dated sense) a bowl for making punch

   Bowle: bole (punša un citu t?du dz?rienu kauss) – Bowle (German): bole (a bowl for punch or similar drinks).

2. punch (drink made of wine, diluted with juices, syrups and fruit, often with added cognac or rhum)

   zeme?u bole – strawberry punch

   boles trauks – punch bowl

Declension

Synonyms

• (punch): punšs

References

Lower Sorbian

Verb

bole

1. Superseded spelling of bóle.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From a mixture of Old English bula, *bulla, and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô.

Alternative forms

• bule, bul, bolle, boule, bool, boole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bul(?)/, /?bu?l(?)/, /?b??l(?)/

Noun

bole (plural boles or bolen)

2. bull, steer, male cow
3. (heraldry) A heraldic bull
4. (astrology) Taurus (zodiac)
5. (astronomy) Taurus (constellation)

Related terms

• bullok

Descendants

• English: bull
• Scots: bul, bull

References

• “b?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse bolr.

Alternative forms

• boole, bol

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??l/

Noun

bole (plural boles)

2. trunk, bole
3. tree

Descendants

• English: bole

References

• “b?le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

bole (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. feminine plural active past participle of bosti

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m?n?(?)/

Etymology 1

common +? -er (“comparative suffix”)

Adjective

commoner

1. comparative form of common: more common

Usage notes

• The potential for confusion with use of the noun as an adjective, especially in the UK, makes this form less desirable. It is much less commonly used than "more common".

Etymology 2

From Middle English comoner, comyner, cumuner, equivalent to common +? -er.

Noun

commoner (plural commoners)

1. A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
2. (Britain) Someone who is not of noble rank.
   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other.

3. (Britain, Oxbridge slang) An undergraduate who does not hold either a scholarship or an exhibition.
4. (obsolete, Britain, Oxford University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Cambridge called a pensioner.
5. Someone holding common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land.
6. (obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.
7. (obsolete) A prostitute.

Synonyms

• (member of the common people): See Thesaurus:commoner
• (prostitute): See Thesaurus:prostitute

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