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mol

UK/məʊl//mol/

mol is the alternative spelling of mole.

Meaning of mole

Noun (1)

mole (plural moles)

  1. A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.

Noun (2)

mole (plural moles)

  1. Any of several small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae.
    Synonyms:
    talpid
  2. Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
  3. An internal spy; a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
  4. A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
  5. A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.

See all 17 meanings of mole

Proper noun capitalized: Mol

Mol

  1. A municipality in Antwerp province, Belgium.

Synonyms of mol

Forms of mol

Noun
pluralmols
Proper noun
alternative formMoll

Origin of mol

Borrowed from German Mol (1897).

Words formed from mol

Phrases with mol

Words that rhyme with mol

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Questions about mol

What does mol mean?
Mol means a municipality in Antwerp province, Belgium.
What is mol the alternative spelling of?
Mol is the alternative spelling of mole.
What part of speech is mol?
Mol is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mol?
Mol is pronounced /məʊl/ (UK).

Words near mol in the dictionary

  1. mokume-gane
  2. mokurruree
  3. mokusatsu
  4. mokèlé-mbèmbé
  5. mokèlé-mbèmbés
  6. mol
  7. mol sieve
  8. mol sieves
  9. mol%
  10. mol.
  11. mol. wt.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mol (page history and authors); Mol (page history and authors); mole (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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