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
The eatery boasts a Maple Smokehouse Tomahawk Pork Chop and Ham & Beans with cole slaw — verbatim from the menu.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
One of my favorite dishes on Earth is an iconic diner stalwart meal: a hot, open-faced turkey sandwich, complete with white bread, French fries, heaping amounts of gravy and cole slaw.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023
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
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
“The way we talk about ‘value’ is probably the biggest mistake Wall Street makes in broad daylight,” says Thomas Cole, co-founder of Distillate Capital Partners, an investment firm in Chicago that manages $2.5 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Aird and Cole have already begun designing additional experiments to determine whether their findings can be reproduced in pancreatic, colon, liver, and other cancers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
HARVARD-WESTLAKE: Players from unbeaten junior varsity team combined with guards Pierce Thompson and Cole Holden will make the Wolverines very dangerous as they gain experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
“Up to one hour you think about form, but after an hour and a half it’s scale,” he told the writers Cole Gagne and Tracy Caras for their book “Soundpieces: Interviews With American Composers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
"Like Dar and Darrin, Cole and Colin and so on."
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
Which bowles were filled with burning coles couered ouer with embers, and in euery vessell vppon the ashes did boyle a little pot of gold, which contrary liquors infused with sweet odours.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington
But who gets the hextra price of the coles and the factory goods?
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Colliers have struk work and coles is riz accordin.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Buttar waisted as if it had been dirt, coles flung away, candles burnt at both ends, tea and meat the same.
From The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray
But of the two the makinge of coles will be lykely to yield most profitt.”
From The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls
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