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sole

Pronunciation: /səʊl/

The English word “sole” has 20 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Only.
  2. Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
  3. Unique; unsurpassed.
  4. With independent power; unfettered.

noun

  1. The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
  2. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
  3. The foot itself.
  4. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
  5. A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
  6. The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
  7. The bottom of a furrow.
  8. The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
  9. The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
  10. The bottom of an embrasure.
  11. A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
  12. The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
  13. The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
  14. A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
  15. A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

verb

  1. To put a sole on a shoe or a boot.

Etymology

From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin sōlus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.

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