polenoun [ C ]
uk/pəʊl/us/poʊl/pole noun [ C ] (STICK)
C2 a long, thin stick of wood or metal, often used standing straight up in the ground to support things:
a telegraph/electricity pole
A flag fluttered from a 40-foot pole.
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- This totem pole is carved from a single tree trunk.
- These poles will be easier to carry if we lash them together with a rope.
- I gave the poles a slight wobble and the whole tent collapsed.
- The vine twines round the pole.
- The children of the village dance around a pole decorated with coloured ribbons.
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Poles, rods, shafts and sticks
- bar
- baton
- billy club
- boathook
- bollard
- broomstick
- cane
- lightning conductor
- maypole
- pointer
- rod
- rung
- shaft
- shooting stick
- stake
- telephone pole
- totem pole
- truncheon
- utility pole
- waddy
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pole noun [ C ] (PLACE)
either of the two points at the most northern and most southern ends of the earth, around which the earth turns:
the North/South Pole
Most weather satellites are stationed over the Equator or travel over the poles.
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Countries, nationalities & continents: continents & regions of the world
- Antarctic
- Antarctica
- Arab
- Asian
- Atlantic
- Australasia
- Balkan
- basque
- equator
- European
- Latin
- roaring forties
- South America
- the Arctic Circle
- the Balkans
- the land of the midnight sun idiom
- the Middle East
- the Pacific Rim
- the West Indies
- Western Saharan
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pole noun [ C ] (OPPOSITE)
either of two completely opposite or different opinions, positions, or qualities:
These two men might be thought to represent the opposite poles of economic ideology.
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Opinions, beliefs and points of view
- -ist
- article of faith
- attitude
- attitudinal
- baggage
- banner
- be a matter of opinion idiom
- eye
- judgment
- manifesto
- matter
- mindset
- mythology
- stand
- try sth out on sb
- turn of mind
- voice
- what makes sb tick idiom
- your idea of sth idiom
- your two cents' worth idiom
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Idiom(s)
poles apart