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kale

UK/keɪl/

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Australia/kæɪl/

kale noun: an edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala).

kale: an edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica...
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Noun

kale (usually uncountable, plural kales)

  1. (usually) An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
    Synonyms:
    borecole
  2. (usually) Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.
  3. (usually) Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
  4. (dated, slang, usually) Money.
    • I’ll bet he takes nine-tenths of his kale from women and children, and he’s an honored citizen.1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012

Proper noun capitalized: Kale

IPA/ˈkeɪli/

Kale

  1. (Greek) Daughter of Zeus.
  2. A moon of Jupiter.

kale meaning in Urdu, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

kale in Urdu

بند گوبھی, کرم کلا

kale in Telugu

కేల్, కాలే

kale in Malayalam

കാലെ

kale in Kannada

ಕೇಲ್
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kale in Odia
କେଲ୍, କାଲେ
kale in Arabic
كُرْنُب أَجْعَد kurnub ʔajʕad
kale in Persian
کلم برگ kalam barg
kale in Vietnamese
cải xoăn

Examples of kale in a sentence

  • Massage the kale to soften it before making the salad.
  • Pick up some kale for the coleslaw at the greengrocer(')s.
  • Kale is known for its winter-hardiness.

All 13 example sentences with kale

Synonyms of kale

Forms of kale

pluralkales

Plural of kale: kales

Origin of kale

From Northern Middle English cale, cal (Southern col), from Old English cāl, cāul, cāwel, from Latin caulis. Compare Icelandic kál (“cabbage”), German Kohl (“cabbage”). Doublet of caulis, cole, and gobi.

From Ancient Greek Καλή (Kalḗ, literally “beauty”), see καλός (kalós, “beautiful”).

Words formed from kale

Phrases with kale

Words that rhyme with kale

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Questions about kale

What does kale mean?
Kale means an edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala).
What is kale in Urdu?
Kale in Urdu is بند گوبھی, کرم کلا. See Kale meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is kale?
Kale can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce kale?
Kale is pronounced /keɪl/ (UK).
What is the plural of kale?
The plural of kale is kales.

Words near kale in the dictionary

  1. Kaldor-Hicks improvement
  2. Kaldor-Hicks improvements
  3. Kaldorian
  4. Kaldors
  5. kalduny
  6. kale
  7. kale runt
  8. kale runts
  9. Kaleb
  10. Kalecki
  11. Kaleckian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kale (page history and authors); Kale (page history and authors); kale (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); kale (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kale (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kale (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kale (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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