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coles

UK/kəʊlz/US/koʊlz/

coles is the plural of cole.

Meaning of cole

Noun (1)

cole (usually uncountable, plural coles)

  1. (usually) Cabbage.
  2. (usually) Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).

Noun (2)

cole (plural coles)

  1. (Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
    • Father saw the happening from high in a park where the hay was cut and they set the swathes in coles, and he swore out Damn't to hell! and started to run […]1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39

See all 14 meanings of cole

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Coles

Coles (countable and uncountable, plural Coleses)

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  2. An unincorporated community in Coles County, Illinois, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Amite County, Mississippi, United States.
  4. A municipality in Ourense province, Galicia, Spain.
  5. A locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, Australia.
  6. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Coles County.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Coles

Coles

  1. (plural) plural of Cole

Forms of coles

pluralColeses

Origin of coles

From Cole + -s (“patronymic suffix”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words formed from coles

Words that rhyme with coles

Questions about coles

What does coles mean?
Coles means a surname originating as a patronymic.
What is coles the plural of?
Coles is the plural of cole.
What part of speech is coles?
Coles is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce coles?
Coles is pronounced /kəʊlz/ (UK).

Words near coles in the dictionary

  1. Coleridge
  2. Coleridgean
  3. Coleridgian
  4. Coleroon
  5. Colers
  6. coles
  7. Coles Bay
  8. Coles County
  9. Coles Notes
  10. Colesden
  11. coleseed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coles (page history and authors); Coles (page history and authors); cole (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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