dole
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dəʊl/, /dɔʊl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /doʊl/
- Rhymes: -əʊl
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Albanian thelë (“portion, piece”) and Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal.
VerbEdit
dole (third-person singular simple present doles, present participle doling, simple past and past participle doled)
- To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to distribute in small amounts
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NounEdit
dole
- Money or other goods given as charity.
- Dryden
- So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
- Keble
- Heaven has in store a precious dole.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- Devereux, indeed, being a fast man, with such acres as he inherited, which certainly did not reach a thousand, mortgaged pretty smartly, and with as much personal debt beside, of the fashionable and refined sort, as became a young buck of bright though doubtful expectations […] was beholden, not only for his fun, but, occasionally for his daily bread and even his liberty, to those benevolent doles.
- Dryden
- Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
- Cleveland
- At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.
- Cleveland
- (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.
- I get my dole paid twice a week.
- I′ve been on the dole for two years now.
- 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, page 107,
- The men sit because they′re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole, discussing the world’s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.
- 1997, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Economic Surveys: Australia, page 67,
- The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.
- A boundary; a landmark.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (Britain, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- (payment to support the unemployed): dole bludger
TranslationsEdit
money or goods given as charity
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unemployment benefit
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English doell (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.
NounEdit
dole (uncountable)
- (archaic) Sorrow or grief; dolour.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, 1868, Morte Darthur, page 212,
- Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole.
- a. 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine”, in Idylls of the King:
- But ten slow mornings past, and on the eleventh / Her father laid the letter in her hand, / And closed the hand upon it, and she died. / So that day there was dole in Astolat.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, 1868, Morte Darthur, page 212,
- (law, Scotland) Dolus.
AnagramsEdit
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
dole
- down (at a lower place or position)
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See alsoEdit
NounEdit
dole m
Further readingEdit
- dole in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- dole in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
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PolishEdit
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Alternative formsEdit
- (Ijekavian): dȍlje
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
dȍle (Cyrillic spelling до̏ле)
InterjectionEdit
dȍle (Cyrillic spelling до̏ле)
- down
- Dol(j)e s vladom!
- Down with the government!
YolaEdit
NounEdit
dole
ReferencesEdit
- J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)