pool
/pul/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.67 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
noun
Example Sentences
- "the pools of Solomon"
- "the Pool of London"
- "[…] at laſt I left them I’ th’ filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell, There dancing vp to th’ chins, that the fowle Lake Ore-ſtunck their feet."
- "A Single Life doth well with Church-men : For Charitie will hardly water the Ground, where it muſt firſt fill a Poole."
- "I loved the brimming wave that swam Thro’ quiet meadows round the mill, The sleepy pool above the dam, The pool beneath it never still, The meal-sacks on the whiten’d floor, The dark round of the dripping wheel, The very air about the door Made misty with the floating meal."
- "a pool of blood"
Etymology
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) (< пруд (prud)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pul/
- British English: /puːl/