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Pole

nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//pəʊl//
  • United Kingdom/[pʰɒʊɫ]/
  • Australia//pɐʉl//
  • //pɒl//
  • /[pʰɒɫ]/

A person from Poland or of Polish descent.

noun

  1. 1

    A person from Poland or of Polish descent.

    The Poles are well dressed, handsome, and somehow on a larger scale than their surroundings, as if they have grown since the war and Poland itself has not.

Etymology

From German Pole.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

Forms

plural
Poles
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).