intj
Meaning 1
Alternative letter-case form of Polo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Standard Lemma guide
polo
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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General-American: /ˈpoʊloʊ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈpəʊləʊ]
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ]
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rhymes with -əʊləʊ
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CMU ARPABET: P OW1 L OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
intj
Meaning 2
Shouted by a player of the game Marco Polo. Compare Marco.
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name
Meaning 3
A surname from Italian or Spanish
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noun
Meaning 4
A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 5
The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 6
A polo shirt.
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Usage: countable, usually
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noun
Meaning 7
A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.
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noun
Meaning 8
A dress shirt.
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Usage: Philippines
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noun
Meaning 9
Synonym of pilaf.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: pilaf
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verb
Meaning 10
To play the game of polo.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 11
To give the cry of "polo!" in the marco polo game.
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Usage: intransitive
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noun
Meaning 12
a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: field game
noun
Meaning 13
Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Marco Polo
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Broader terms: traveler, traveller
History
Etymology
From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus.
From Marco Polo, from Latin Marcus Paulus, from Paulus.
From Italian Polo and Spanish Polo.
From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).
From Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.
Unknown.
Borrowed from Persian پلو (polov).
Across languages
Translations
64 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: صَوْلَجَان (ṣawlajān) — ball game
- Arabic: كُرَة وَ صَوْلَجَان — ball game
- Arabic: بُولُو (būlū) — ball game
- Armenian: պոլո (polo) — ball game
- Asturian: polu — ball game
- Azerbaijani: polo — ball game
- Belarusian: по́ла (póla) — ball game
- Bengali: পোলো (pōlō) — ball game
- Bulgarian: по́ло (pólo) — ball game
- Burmese: ဂူလီသဘင် (gulisa.bhang) — ball game
- Catalan: polo — ball game
- Chinese Mandarin: 馬球 /马球 (mǎqiú) — ball game
- Czech: pólo — ball game
- Danish: polo — ball game
- Estonian: polo — ball game
- Finnish: poolo — ball game
- Finnish: hevospoolo — ball game
- French: polo — ball game
- Galician: polo — ball game
- Georgian: ცხენბურთი (cxenburti) — ball game
- German: Polo — ball game
- Greek: πόλο (pólo) — ball game
- Gujarati: પોલો (polo) — ball game
- Hausa: hōlṑ — ball game
- Hebrew: פּוֹלוֹ (polo) — ball game
- Hindi: पोलो (polo) — ball game
- Hindi: चौगान (caugān) — ball game
- Icelandic: póló — ball game
- Irish: póló — ball game
- Italian: polo — ball game
- Japanese: ポロ (poro) — ball game
- Kazakh: поло (polo) — ball game
- Kazakh: шөген (şögen) — ball game
- Korean: 폴로 (pollo) — ball game
- Northern Kurdish: çovgan — ball game
- Kyrgyz: поло (polo) — ball game
- Lithuanian: polas — ball game
- Macedonian: поло (polo) — ball game
- Marathi: पोलो (polo) — ball game
- Nepali: पोलो (polo) — ball game
- Norwegian Bokmål: polo — ball game
- Norwegian Nynorsk: polo — ball game
- Persian: چوگان (čowgân) — ball game
- Polish: polo — ball game
- Portuguese: pólo — ball game
- Russian: по́ло (pólo) — ball game
- Serbo-Croatian: поло — ball game
- Serbo-Croatian: polo — ball game
- Sinhalese: පෝලෝ (pōlō) — ball game
- Slovak: pólo — ball game
- Spanish: polo — ball game
- Swedish: hästpolo — ball game
- Tajik: чавгон (čavgon) — ball game
- Thai: โปโล (bpoo-loo) — ball game
- Tibetan: པོ་ལོ (po lo) — ball game
- Turkish: polo — ball game
- Turkish: çevgen — ball game
- Ukrainian: по́ло (pólo) — ball game
- Urdu: پولو (polo) — ball game
- Uzbek: polo — ball game
- Uzbek: chavgon — ball game
- Vietnamese: mã cầu — ball game
- Vietnamese: pô-lô — ball game
- Yiddish: פּאָלאָ (polo) — ball game