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jol

UK/dʒəʊl/

jol noun: a party.

Noun (1)

jol (plural jols)

  1. (South Africa, slang) A party.
    • —Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top.2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 249
    • I had a jol observing the Friday mix at the Radisson RED’s Roof Bar and the engagement between the patrons, especially between the older men and younger women.2020 September 2, “More sex in Stellies with Eva Mazza”, in Sunday Times

Verb

jol (third-person singular simple present jols, present participle jolling, simple past and past participle jolled)

  1. (South Africa, slang) To party.

Noun (2)

jol (plural jols)

  1. (UK) A barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula.
    • The old crystalline hills of the ‘Asir and Yemen, which to the west drop in a series of steps to the Tihamah or coastal plain, are to the east overlain by near horizontal strata of sedimentary rocks of which the oldest are probably the sandstones forming the Kaukab plateau and the newest, excluding...1953, D. G. Bunker, “The South-West Borderlands of the Rub' Al Khali”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 119, →DOI
    • An extensive, barren desert plateau, around 1,000-1,200 m in elevation, the jol, extends eastwards from Shabwa, dropping away northwards to the sands of the Rub al Khali.2006, Masaa Al Jumaily, David P. Mallon, Abdul Karim Nasher, Nagi Thowabeh, “Status Report on Arabian Leopard in Yemen”, in Cat News, volume Special Volume 1, →ISSN, page 23
    Synonyms:
    desert, plateau, flatland

Synonyms of jol

Forms of jol

Noun
pluraljols
alternative formjawl
Verb
third-person singular presentjols
present participlejolling
past participlejolled
pastjolled

Origin of jol

Shortened from jolly?

Words formed from jol

Questions about jol

What does jol mean?
Jol means a party.
What part of speech is jol?
Jol can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce jol?
Jol is pronounced /dʒəʊl/ (UK).
What is the plural of jol?
The plural of jol is jols.

Words near jol in the dictionary

  1. jokulhaups
  2. jokulhlaup
  3. jokulhlaups
  4. jokuls
  5. joky
  6. jol
  7. Jola
  8. Jolani
  9. jole
  10. joled
  11. Joleen

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