cole
noun
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rapeseed.
cole
1 American
[kohl]
/ koʊl /
noun
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coles
plural
Cole
2
American
[kohl]
/ koʊl /
noun
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Nat “King” Nathaniel Adams Coles, 1919?–65, U.S. singer and jazz pianist.
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Thomas, 1801–48, U.S. painter, born in England: a founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting.
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Timothy, 1852–1931, U.S. wood engraver, born in England.
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a male given name.
Cole
1
British
/ kəʊl /
noun
cole
2
British
/ kəʊl /
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of cole
First recorded before 1000; Middle English col(e), Old English cāl, cāw(e)l; akin to German Kohl “cabbage”; from Latin caulis “stalk, cabbage”; cognate with Greek kaulós “stalk”; see kohlrabi
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As Ella Emhoff, one of Harris’ stepchildren, puts it, “How can you be ‘childless’ when you have cutie pie kids like cole and I.” But for Vance, real parents are biological parents.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2024
Some chow down right there — fish and shrimp, fries and cole slaw and mac and cheese, sometimes pierogies or a local noodle-and-cabbage delicacy called haluski.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Send along a tub of sweet-and-smoky pulled pork with hamburger buns, cole slaw, and sautéed greens, and dinner is served.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2022
His side orders include baked beans, cole slaw, purple slaw, potato and pasta salads, a macaroni and cheese and an item he says you can’t find anywhere else in town.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 3, 2016
I’d find industrial-sized cans of corn that were nearly full and huge containers of cole slaw and tapioca pudding.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Aird and Cole have already begun planning follow-up studies to determine whether the results can be reproduced in several other types of cancer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Ms. Cole, the author of the memoir “After Great Pain: A New Life Emerges,” writes on books and arts for the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Cole tells the story of the Freedom to Marry campaign that I led and our success in winning marriage for same-sex couples as an example of “the power of citizen activists to make constitutional law.”
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
She took in the maximum from Rick Cole, a former aide to City Controller Kenneth Mejia who serves as a council member in Pasadena and has been actively supporting Raman’s campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Cole jumped to his feet and stormed across the cell.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
To which it may perhaps not be unseasonable to add, that a very worthy person in London, suggests the Pitch, drawn out of Sea coles, for a good Remedy to scare away these noysome insects.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
But who gets the hextra price of the coles and the factory goods?
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Monkes T. 143 in hoote coles he hath hym seluen raked.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
If wun of his dooties is taxin pore peepul's coles, I wunder wot the others is, I sez, or air the Turks an Rooshans a goin to fite by steme?
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
So she cut a coloppe of baken, and broyled it on the coles, and began to eate theron a pace; she was so hungrye, that she toke no hede of drynke.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew
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