cole
pronunciation
How to pronounce cole in British English:
UK [kəʊl]
How to pronounce cole in American English:
US [koʊl]
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- Noun:
- a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head
- coarse curly-leafed cabbage
Word Origin
- cole (n.)
- "cabbage," late Old English cawel, perhaps via Old Norse kal, from Latin caulis "stem, stalk," which in Vulgar Latin replaced brassica as the usual word for "cabbage" (source also of Italian cavolo, Spanish col, Old French chol, French chou; also borrowed elsewhere in Germanic, for example Swedish kal, Danish kaal, German kohl, Dutch kool).
Example
- 1. From this position , cole must evaluate a number of different factors .
- 2. Everybody 's talking about this news about michael cole .
- 3. Mourinho will assemble his squad in america on 9 july and is hoping joe cole returns fully fit .
- 4. Old king cole was a merry old soul .
- 5. Why on earth does linda come back to cole anyway ?