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marcopolo

marcopolo is the alternative form of Marco Polo.

Meaning of Marco Polo

Noun

Marco Polo (countable and uncountable, plural Marco Polos)

  1. (countable) A renowned traveler.
    • Ibn Battuta has inevitably been compared with him and has usually taken second prize as "the Marco Polo of the Muslim world" or "the Marco Polo of the tropics"2004, Ross E. Dunn, chapter 1, in The adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim traveler of the fourteenth century, page 5
  2. (uncountable) A hunting game—usually played in a swimming pool—where the seeker moves with closed eyes or blindfolded, finding the other players by calling "Marco" and reacting to the other players' replies of "Polo".

Forms of marcopolo

pluralmarcopolos

Questions about marcopolo

What is marcopolo the alternative form of?
Marcopolo is the alternative form of Marco Polo.

Words near marcopolo in the dictionary

  1. Marconism
  2. marcophilist
  3. marcophilists
  4. marcophily
  5. marcopinocytosis
  6. marcopolo
  7. marcor
  8. marcos
  9. Marcos Highway
  10. Marcoses
  11. Marcosian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marcopolo (page history and authors); Marco Polo (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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