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dole

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dole"

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal.

Verb

dole (third-person singular simple present doles, present participle doling, simple past and past participle doled)

  1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

dole

  1. Money or other goods given as charity.
  2. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
  3. (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
    Synonyms: (UK) pancrack, (Canada) pogey
    I get my dole paid twice a week.
    I've been on the dole for two years now.
    • 1980 February 25, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Open Government”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington):
      So, we are being fobbed off by second-rate American junk by smart aleck salesman from Pittsburgh while British factories stand empty and British workmen queue up for the dole.
    • 1986, Morrissey, Johnny Marr, “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others”, in The Queen is Dead, performed by The Smiths:
      From the ice age to the dole age / There is but one concern / I have just discovered
    • 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, page 107:
      The men sit because they′re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole, discussing the world’s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.
    • 1997, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Economic Surveys: Australia, page 67:
      The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.
    • 2002, “Has It Come to This?”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics), Original Pirate Material, performed by The Streets:
      Sort your shit out, then roll / Sex, drugs, and on the dole / Some men rise, some men fall
  4. A boundary; a landmark.
    • 1559, “Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty, Concerning both the Clergy and Laity, of This Realm, Published Anno Domini Mdlix. being the First Year of the Raign of Our Soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth”, in Anth[ony] Sparrow, compiler, A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England, […], 4th edition, London: […] Blanch Rawlet […], published 1684, →OCLC, paragraph 19, page 73:
      Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor.
  5. (British, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
Derived terms

(payment to support the unemployed):

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English doell (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.

Noun

dole (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A sorrow or grief; dolour.
  2. (law, Scotland) Dolus.
Derived terms

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adverb

dole

  1. down (at a lower place or position)
    Antonym: nahoře
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

dole m

  1. vocative/locative singular of důl

Further reading

  • “dole”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “dole”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “dole”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Verb

dole

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of dolen

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Verb

dole

  1. inflection of doler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

dolē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of doleō

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔlɛ/, [ˈdɔlə]

Noun

dole

  1. locative singular of doł

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.lɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlɛ
  • Syllabification: do‧le

Noun

dole f

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of dola

Noun

dole m inan

  1. locative/vocative singular of dół

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dôle/
  • Hyphenation: do‧le

Adverb

dȍle (Cyrillic spelling до̏ле)

  1. down
  2. below

Interjection

dȍle (Cyrillic spelling до̏ле)

  1. down
    Dol(j)e s vladom!
    Down with the government!

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English dol, dal, from Old English dāl, from Proto-Germanic *dailą.

Pronunciation

Noun

dole

  1. deal
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 36:
      A big dole.
      A great deal.
    • 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:
      Aar's a dole o' sneow apa greound to-die.
      There is a deal of snow upon the ground to-day.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36

Zazaki

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [doˈlə]
  • Hyphenation: do‧le

Noun

dole f

  1. A lake.

See also

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