German

Noun

Dole f ‎(genitive Dole, plural Dolen)

1. covered ditch
2. (Switzerland) gully; drain

Declension

English

Verb

dole ‎(third-person singular simple present doles, present participle doling, simple past and past participle doled)

1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

Translations

Noun

dole

1. 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.

2. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
   • Cleveland

     At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.

3. (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.

4. A boundary; a landmark.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

5. (Britain, dialect) A void space left in tillage.

Synonyms

• (payment by the state to the unemployed): pancrack (UK), pogey (Canada)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dole ‎(“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.

Noun

dole ‎(uncountable)

1. (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.

   • Tennyson

     And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat.

2. (law, Scotland) dolus

Derived terms

• (payment to support the unemployed): dole bludger

Anagrams

• leod, lode, olde, OLED

Czech

Pronunciation

Adverb

dole

1. down (at a lower place or position)

Antonyms

• nahoře

Related terms

• dolů

See also

• vlevo
• vpravo

Dutch

Verb

dole

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dolen

Anagrams

• doel

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: dolent, doles

Verb

dole

1. inflection of doler:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person and third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

dolē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of doleō

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔlɛ/

Noun

dole

1. locative singular of doł

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.lɛ/

Noun

dole

1. inflection of dola:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative plural
   3. vocative plural

Noun

dole

1. locative and vocative singular of dół

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): dȍlje

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dôle/
• Hyphenation: do‧le

Adverb

dȍle ‎(Cyrillic spelling до̏ле)

1. down
2. below

Interjection

dȍle ‎(Cyrillic spelling до̏ле)

1. down

   Dol(j)e s vladom!‎

   Down with the government!

Yola

Noun

dole

1. deal

References

• 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)