name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
maypole
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.
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Pronunciation
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US: /ˈmeɪˌpoʊl/
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name
Meaning 2
A place in England:
A settlement on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall (OS grid ref SV9211).
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Meaning 3
A place in England:
A settlement near the village of Chelsfield, borough of Bromley, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ4963).
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Meaning 4
A place in England:
A village in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5173).
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Meaning 5
A place in England:
A settlement in Hoath parish, Canterbury district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2064).
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Meaning 6
A settlement in Whitecastle community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4716).
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noun
Meaning 7
A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- How would you like the maypole decorated?
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noun
Meaning 8
A very tall girl or young lady.
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Usage: idiomatic
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noun
Meaning 9
A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology
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noun
Meaning 10
A penis, especially a large one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
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verb
Meaning 11
To dance or spin in a circle around something.
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noun
Meaning 12
a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: post
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh2sder.? Latin Maia Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Old Latin -os Latin -us Latin Maiusder. Old French maibor. Middle English May English May English pole English maypole Compound of May + pole, so called in reference to its use on May Day.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: عَمُود الرَّقْص (ʕamūd ar-raqṣ) — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Asturian: mayu — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Czech: májka — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Czech: máje — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Danish: majstang — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Danish: midsommerstang — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Dutch: meiboom — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Finnish: juhannussalko — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- French: arbre de mai — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- German: Maibaum — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Norwegian: maistang — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Norwegian: midtsommerstang — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Polish: słup majowy — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Polish: drzewko majowe — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Polish: maik — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Polish: gaik — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Spanish: mayo — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Swedish: midsommarstång — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day
- Swedish: majstång — pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day