name
Meaning 1
Columbia, South Carolina
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
Examples
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Cola.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Cola Town, Soda City
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cola
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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rhymes with -əʊlə
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ.lə/
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General-American: /ˈkoʊlə/
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CMU ARPABET: K OW1 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
comp.os.linux.advocacy (a Usenet newsgroup promoting the Linux operating system)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
plural of colon
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
Acronym of cost of living adjustment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dope
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: soft drink
Narrower terms: Coca Cola, Coke, Pepsi, Pepsi Cola
noun
Meaning 9
large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: genus Cola
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dilleniid dicot genus
History
Etymology
Acronym
From a Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known, and popularized the spelling with c instead of k.
See colon.
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cola (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, or from its diminutive caudula. Doublet of queue and coda.
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كُولَا (kūlā) — drink
- Arabic: كولا (kola) — drink
- Arabic: كولا (kōla) — drink
- Arabic: كولا (kōla) — drink
- Armenian: կոլա (kola) — drink
- Belarusian: ко́ла (kóla) — drink
- Bulgarian: ко́ла (kóla) — drink
- Catalan: cola — drink
- Chinese Cantonese: 可樂 /可乐 (ho2 lok6) — drink
- Hakka Chinese: 可樂 /可乐 (khó-là) — drink
- Chinese Mandarin: 可樂 /可乐 (kělè) — drink
- Czech: kola — drink
- Danish: cola — drink
- Dutch: cola — drink
- Esperanto: kolao — drink
- Faroese: kola — drink
- Finnish: kolajuoma — drink
- French: coca — drink
- Georgian: კოლა (ḳola) — drink
- German: Cola — drink
- Greek: κόλα (kóla) — drink
- Hebrew: קוֹלָה (qola) — drink
- Hindi: कोला (kolā) — drink
- Hungarian: kóla — drink
- Japanese: コーラ (kōra) — drink
- Korean: 콜라 (kolla) — drink
- Macedonian: ко́ла (kóla) — drink
- Marathi: कोला (kolā) — drink
- Mongolian: кола (kola) — drink
- Persian: کولا (kolâ) — drink
- Polish: cola — drink
- Polish: kola — drink
- Portuguese: cola — drink
- Romanian: cola — drink
- Russian: ко́ла (kóla) — drink
- Scottish Gaelic: còc — drink
- Serbo-Croatian: кола — drink
- Serbo-Croatian: kola — drink
- Slovak: kola — drink
- Spanish: cola — drink
- Swedish: cola — drink
- Swedish: kola — drink
- Thai: โคล่า (koo-lâa) — drink
- Turkish: kola — drink
- Ukrainian: ко́ла (kóla) — drink