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  Marco Polo

  noun

  Polo, Marco.
• Polo, Marco
  Polo, Marco

  An Italian explorer of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia. He visited the court of Kublai Khan (see “Kubla Khan” under “Literature in English”), the Mongol ruler of China, and became a government official in China. His account of his travels was distributed after his return to Italy.

Marco Polo

American  

[mahr-koh poh-loh] / ˈmɑr koʊ ˈpoʊ loʊ /

noun

1. Polo, Marco.

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Marco Polo British  

/ ˈmɑːkəʊ ˈpəʊləʊ /

noun

1. See Polo

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Polo, Marco Cultural  

1. An Italian explorer of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia. He visited the court of Kublai Khan (see “Kubla Khan” under “Literature in English”), the Mongol ruler of China, and became a government official in China. His account of his travels was distributed after his return to Italy.

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Marco Polo Polo, Marco

Zheng He, a 15th-century Chinese seafarer, visited the strait, and Marco Polo wrote about risk-taking mariners there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026

I played Marco Polo in the pool with the Persian kids.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024

Between 2013 and 2021, with at least five co-conspirators, Schubarth imported “parts of” Kyrgyzstan’s large, endangered Marco Polo argali sheep to the U.S., which he then sent to labs to create 165 cloned embryos.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

In January 2013, a Montana livestock worker returned to the United States from Kyrgyzstan hiding tissue from a Marco Polo argali sheep, one of the largest in the world, federal prosecutors said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

She watched Big Jerome pick up Little Jerome by the scruff of the neck like he was a puppy and toss him into the pool, upsetting the Marco Polo players.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

Political science, founder of, 144 Political worship, 412 Polo, Marco, 299-300 Polynesian races, 71 Pompey the Great, 192, 193, 196, 198, 430 Pontifex maximus, 237, 261 Popes.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)