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boules

boules is the plural of boule.

Meaning of boule

Noun (1)

boule (plural boules)

  1. One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
    • Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
  2. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
  3. A round loaf of bread.
  4. A round piece of dough.
  5. A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
    • Behind him is lumber 'sawn in the boule.' Wood is more commonly sawn in this manner in Europe and is stacked in the order it comes from the log.1986, Fine woodworking on wood and how to dry it, page 42

Noun (2)

boule (plural boules)

  1. (historical) A council of citizens in Ancient Greece

See all 7 meanings of boule

Noun

boules (uncountable)

  1. bowls; a game played with metal balls.

Origin of boules

In the sense of the game, a shortening of French jeu de boules.

Questions about boules

What does boules mean?
Boules means bowls; a game played with metal balls.
What is boules the plural of?
Boules is the plural of boule.
What part of speech is boules?
Boules is a noun.

Words near boules in the dictionary

  1. bouled
  2. Boulenger
  3. Boulengers
  4. Bouler
  5. Boulers
  6. boules
  7. Boulet
  8. bouletic
  9. Boulets
  10. bouleutai
  11. bouleuteria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boules (page history and authors); boule (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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