pool

CEFRA1

/puːl/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small area of water.

  2. 02

    noun

    A game played on a table by hitting balls with a stick.

Examples

  • School being over, we went swimming in the pool.

  • The school drains the pool once a month.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • /pul/
  • /pʉl/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

  2. Ellipsis of swimming pool.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To combine money, resources, or people for a purpose.

More examples

In context

  • a pool of blood

  • the Pool of London

  • the pools of Solomon

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”). For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (<...