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jols

jols is the plural of jol.

jols is the third-person singular simple present indicative of jol.

Meaning of jol

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

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
    Synonyms:
    desert, plateau, flatland

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Questions about jols

What is jols the plural of?
Jols is the plural of jol.

Words near jols in the dictionary

  1. Joloano
  2. Joloanos
  3. Jolof
  4. Jolofs
  5. jolpan
  6. jols
  7. Jolson
  8. Jolsonian
  9. jolt
  10. jolt head nail
  11. jolted

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