mole
/məʊl/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
Estuary English/mɒʊl/
mole noun: a naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
Noun (1)
mole (plural moles)
Noun (2)
mole (plural moles)
- Any of several small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae.
- Synonyms:
- talpid
- Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
- 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.
- A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
- A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
Verb
mole (third-person singular simple present moles, present participle moling, simple past and past participle moled)
- To create a network of channels in (waterlogged soil) to improve drainage.
Noun (3)
Australia/məʉl/
mole (plural moles)
Noun (4)
mole (plural moles)
- A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
- [Alexander the Great] then conceived the stupendous idea of constructing a mole, which should at once connect [Tyre] with the main land; and this was actually accomplished by driving piles and pouring in incalculable quantities of soil and fragments of rock; and it is generally believed, partly on...1847, George A. Fisk, A pastor's memorial of the holy land
- Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1
- A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
- An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
Noun (5)
mole (plural moles)
- In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number.
Noun (6)
mole (plural moles)
- A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
Noun (7)
US/ˈmoʊleɪ/
mole (countable and uncountable, plural moles)
- Any of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America countries, especially one that contains chocolate and is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
Proper noun capitalized: Mole
Mole
mole meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mole in Hindi
- dark spot on the skin
- तिल til
- burrowing insectivore
- छछूँदर chachū̃dar
- unit of amount
- मोल mol
mole in Tamil
- dark spot on the skin
- மச்சம் maccam
mole in Marathi
- dark spot on the skin
- तीळ tīḷ
- unit of amount
- मोल mol
mole in Urdu
- dark spot on the skin
- تل til
- burrowing insectivore
- چھچھوندر chachū̃dar
- unit of amount
- مول mōl
More languagesFewer languages
- mole in Bengali
- ছুঁচো chũcō
- mole in Telugu
- పుట్టుమచ్చ puṭṭumacca, గూఢచారి gūḍhacāri
- mole in Malayalam
- മോൾ
- mole in Kannada
- ಚುಕ್ಕೆ, ಕಲೆ, ಮಚ್ಚೆ, ಮಚ್ಚ
- mole in Punjabi
- ਚਕਚੂੰਧਰ cakcūndhar, ਛਛੂੰਦਰ chachūndar
- mole in Gujarati
- છછૂંદર chachū̃dar
- mole in Odia
- ଚୁଚୁନ୍ଦ୍ରା cucundrā
- mole in Sanskrit
- आखु ākhú
- mole in Assamese
- উতনুৱা utonua
- mole in Tagalog
- nunal
- mole in Arabic
- خَال ḵāl, شَامَة šāma, حسنة ḥasana, شامة šāma
- mole in Malay
- tahi lalat, musuh dalam selimut, mol
- mole in Indonesian
- tikus tanah, penyusup, mol
- mole in Persian
- خال xâl, کور موش
- mole in Thai
- ไฝ fǎi, ตุ่น dtùn, หนอนบ่อนไส้ nɔ̌ɔn-bɔ̀n-sâi, โมล mool
- mole in Vietnamese
- nốt ruồi, mụt ruồi, chuột chũi, chuột dũi
- mole in Myanmar
- မှဲ့ hmai., ပွေး pwe:
Examples of mole in a sentence
- It was thought that I was the mole in the company.
- Boss says there's a mole in our organization. Find him and put him on ice.
- So what if you kissed some bogan mole in the bogger at some 3rd-rate bar?
Synonyms of mole
Forms of mole
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | moles |
| alternative form | mool |
| alternative form | moule |
| alternative form | mowle |
| alternative form | mold |
| alternative form | mol |
| alternative form | molé |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | moles |
| present participle | moling |
| past participle | moled |
| past | moled |
Origin of mole
From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-West Germanic *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”). Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻 (mail, “spot, blemish”).
From Middle English molle, molde, mole (“mole”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *mol(h), from Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (“mole, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *molg-, *molk- (“slug, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)melw- (“to grind, crush, beat”). Cognate with North Frisian mull (“mole”), Saterland Frisian Molle (“mole”), Dutch mol (“mole”), German Low German Mol, Mul, Mull (“mole”), German Molch (“salamander, newt”), Old Russian смолжь (smolžʹ, “snail”), Czech mlž (“clam”). Derivation as an abbreviation of Middle English molewarpe, a variation of moldewarpe, moldwerp (“mole”) in Middle English is unexplained and probably unlikely due to the simultaneous occurrence of both words. See mouldwarp.
From moll (from Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary), influenced by the spelling of the word mole (“an internal spy”), and due to /mɒl/ and /məʊl/ merging as [ˈmɔʊɫ] in the Australian accent.
Words formed from mole
- atto-mole
- attomole
- centimole
- decimole
- femtomole
- kilomole
- micromole
- mmole
- molal
- mole fraction
- mole sieve
- nanomole
- picomole
- yoctomole
- zeptomole
- blind as a mole
- Brewer's mole
- common mole
- duckmole
- duck mole
- eastern mole
- golden mole
- hairy-tailed mole
- hairytail mole
- Japanese mole
- marsupial mole
- mole-bank
- mole bean
- molecast
- molecatcher
- molecatching
- mole crab
- Mole Creek
- mole cricket
- mole-eyed
- molehead
- moleheap
- molehill *
- molehunt
- molehunter
- moleish
- molelike
- moleomancy
- mole plough
- moleproof
- mole-rat *
- Mole River
- mole run
- mole salamander
- mole shrew *
- moleskin
- mole snake
- moletrap
- Père David's mole
- rat-mole
- rat mole
- Sado mole
- sand mole
- shrew mole *
- star-nosed mole
Phrases with mole
- mole rat
- mole hill
- mole plow
- mole rats
- mole runs
- mole beans
- mole crabs
- mole hills
- mole plows
- mole shrew
- shrew mole
- water mole
22 more phrasesFewer phrases
- mole people
- mole shrews
- mole sieves
- Mole Valley
- mole ploughs
- mole crickets
- Tokuda's mole
- blind mole rat
- mole fractions
- naked mole rat
- desert mole rat
- naked mole rats
- Tyrrhenian mole
- desert mole rats
- mole salamanders
- Congo golden mole
- mole cricket wasp
- African mole cricket
- sandy blind mole rat
- African mole crickets
- European mole cricket
- Stuhlmann's golden mole
Words that rhyme with mole
47 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- parole
- toll
- dole
- goal
- patrol
- role
- swole
- bricole
- condole
- noel
- whole
- stroll
- bole
- knoll
- shoal
- carmagnole
- foal
- pistole
- prole
- Seoul
- stole
- thole
- Tyrol
- baklol
- cajole
- console
- decontrol
- dhole
- droll
- extol
- extrasystole
- gnoll
- hop pole
- indol
- kohl
- memorial pole
- micromole
- mol
- Nicole
- nole
- ole
- parasystole
- schizocoel
- schizocoele
- sowl
- square peg in a round hole
- vole
Questions about mole
- What does mole mean?
- Mole means a naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
- What is mole in Hindi?
- Mole in Hindi is तिल (til), छछूँदर (chachū̃dar), मोल (mol). See Mole meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mole?
- Mole can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mole?
- Mole is pronounced /məʊl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of mole?
- The plural of mole is moles.
Words near mole in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mole (page history and authors); Mole (page history and authors); mole (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mole (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); आखु (Sanskrit) (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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