poles

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəʊlz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /poʊlz/

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• Rhymes: -əʊlz

poles

1. plural of pole

   The distance between the poles was three feet.

poles

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pole

• LEPOs, S-pole, eslop, lopes, olpes, slope, spole

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + feminine plural article les (“the”).

poles f pl (masculine sg pol, feminine sg pola, neuter sg polo, masculine plural polos)

1. for the, by the

poles

1. second-person singular present indicative of pulir

Borrowed from Dutch polijst, polijsten, from Old French poliss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of polir, from Latin polīre (“to polish, make smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive, strike, thrust”), from the notion of fulling cloth.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lɛs/
• Rhymes: -lɛs
• Hyphenation: po‧les

poles (plural poles-poles, first-person possessive polesku, second-person possessive polesmu, third-person possessive polesnya)

1. polish: a substance used to polish.

• polis

• “poles” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

poles m pl

1. plural of pole

poles

1. second-person singular present indicative of polir