cole
/kɒl//kəʊl/
cole noun: cabbage. Also the obsolete form of coal.
Noun (1)
cole (usually uncountable, plural coles)
Noun (2)
cole (plural coles)
Proper noun capitalized: Cole
Cole (countable and uncountable, plural Coles)
- A male given name.
- A few years later when Doug and I got married, Cole, Ella, and I agreed that we didn’t like the term “stepmom.” Instead they came up with the name “Momala.”2024 July 21, Kamala Harris, “Kamala Harris on Being ‘Momala’”, in ELLE
- A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A surname, variant of Cowell. from Cowell
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- A river in the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Rivers Blythe and Tame north-east of Coleshill (Warwickshire).
- A river forming the border between Wiltshire and Oxfordshire, England, which joins the Thames near Lechlade.
- A hamlet in Pitcombe parish, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST6633).
- A neighbourhood of Denver, Colorado, United States.
- A township in Benton County, Missouri, United States.
- A town in McClain County, Oklahoma, United States.
- Ellipsis of Cole County.
Also used as
cole is also the obsolete form of coal.
cole meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Kannada
cole in Hindi
- कोले
cole in Marathi
- कोले
cole in Bengali
- কোল
cole in Kannada
- ಕೋಲೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- cole in Gujarati
- કોલે
- cole in Odia
- କୋଲେ, କୋଲ
Forms of cole
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | coles |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Coles |
Origin of cole
From Middle English cole, col, from Old English cawel, an early Germanic borrowing from Latin caulis (“cabbage”). Cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohl, Danish kål, Norwegian Bokmål kål, Norwegian Nynorsk kål, Swedish kål. Doublet of caulis, gobi, and kale.
The surname is variously from: # A nickname from Old English col (“coal, coal-black”), # A patronymic from Nicholas (see also Coles, Colson, Colle). # A variation of Cowell (which itself has several origins). # As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, variant of McCool. # As a German surname, Americanized from Kohl. # As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Kool. # As a French surname, Americanized/calqued from Charbonneau, influenced by the first sense.
Words formed from cole
Phrases with cole
Words that rhyme with cole
47 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- toll
- dole
- goal
- patrol
- role
- swole
- bricole
- condole
- mole
- noel
- whole
- stroll
- bole
- knoll
- shoal
- carmagnole
- foal
- pistole
- prole
- Seoul
- stole
- thole
- Tyrol
- baklol
- cajole
- console
- decontrol
- dhole
- droll
- extol
- extrasystole
- gnoll
- hop pole
- indol
- kohl
- memorial pole
- micromole
- mol
- Nicole
- nole
- ole
- parasystole
- schizocoel
- schizocoele
- sowl
- square peg in a round hole
- vole
Questions about cole
- What does cole mean?
- Cole means cabbage.
- What is cole in Hindi?
- Cole in Hindi is कोले. See Cole meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cole?
- Cole can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cole?
- Cole is pronounced /kəʊl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cole?
- The plural of cole is coles.
Words near cole in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cole (page history and authors); Cole (page history and authors); cole (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cole (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cole (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cole (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cole (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cole (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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