noun
Meaning 1
plural of bowl
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bowls
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /bəʊlz/
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General-American: /boʊlz/
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rhymes with -əʊlz
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CMU ARPABET: B OW1 L Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A ball used in the game of bowls
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
third-person singular simple present indicative of bowl
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lawn bowling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bowling
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 草地滾球 /草地滚球 (cǎodì gǔnqiú) — precision sport
- Dutch: bowls — precision sport
- Dutch: koersbal — precision sport
- Estonian: keegel — precision sport
- Finnish: nurmikeilailu — precision sport
- French: boulingrin — precision sport
- German: Bowlsspiel — precision sport
- Hungarian: teke — precision sport
- Hungarian: kugli — precision sport
- Italian: bocce — precision sport
- Japanese: ローンボウルズ (rōnbōruzu) — precision sport
- Macedonian: боќање (boḱanje) — precision sport
- Māori: maita — precision sport
- Polish: bowls — precision sport
- Portuguese: bocha — precision sport
- Portuguese: bowls — precision sport
- Russian: игра́ в боулз (igrá v boulz) — precision sport
- Russian: боулз (boulz) — precision sport
- Spanish: bowls sobre hierba — precision sport
- Turkish: çim topu — precision sport
- Finnish: kuula — ball for game of bowls
- Italian: boccia — ball for game of bowls
- Polish: kula do gry w bowls — ball for game of bowls
- Portuguese: bocha — ball for game of bowls
Real reading context