different between cheers vs skol

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation): IPA^(key): /t???z/, /t???z/
• (General American): enPR: ch?rz, IPA^(key): /t???z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z

Verb

cheers

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cheer

Noun

cheers

1. plural of cheer

Interjection

cheers

1. A common toast used when drinking in company.
2. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, informal) goodbye, especially as a sign-off in an email
3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, informal) thank you

Synonyms

• (toast): bottoms up, skoal, chin chin, down the hatch, here’s mud in your eye
• (informal: goodbye): bye, catch you later, cheerio (UK), laters (slang), see you, see you later, see you after (Scottish), see you later alligator, so long, ta-ta (British)
• (informal: thank you): ta (UK, AUS, NZL), thanks; see also Thesaurus:thank you

Translations

Anagrams

• Escher, Reches, Scheer, creesh

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cheers.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?rs/, [t???rs]
• Hyphenation: cheers

Interjection

cheers

1. (informal, Netherlands) cheers (toast)

Synonyms

• proost, gezondheid, santé, schol, prut

Anagrams

• scheer, schere

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skål.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk?l/

Interjection

skol

1. (originally and chiefly in Scotland) A drinking-toast; cheers.
   • 1990, Alasdair Gray, ‘A Free Man with a Pipe’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), page 490:

     Again they notice he has impressed her and again he grows more cheerful, clinking his glass against hers and saying ‘Skol!’

Verb

skol (third-person singular simple present skols, present participle skolling, simple past and past participle skolled)

1. (Australia, slang, transitive) To down (a drink).
   • 2011, Richard Plant, Life's a Blur

     The Aussie skolled his beer, threw the Kiwi into the fireplace, and shot him.

Anagrams

• Klos, Kols

Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin schola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sko?l/, /?sk??l/

Noun

skol f

1. school

Derived terms

• skol-vamm
• skol-veur

Cornish

Alternative forms

• scol

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin schola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sko?l]

Noun

skol f (plural skolyow)

1. school

Dalmatian

Etymology

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

Noun

skol f

1. school

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch school.

Noun

skol

1. school