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vole en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /vɐʉl/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • [voːɫ] (Canada)
  • [vɔʊɫ] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /vəʉl/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /vol/ (Scotland)
  • /voʊl/ (General-American)
  • [voɫ] (Scotland)
  • [voɫ] (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /vəʊl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.

Meanings

  1. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.

Forms

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voles Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

mouse · mole-rat · rat · mole

Deriveds

Tien Shan vole · field vole · pine vole · Schidlovsky's vole · prairie vole · mountain vole · Murree vole · Amargosa vole · volepox · Marie's vole · steppe vole · Lake Baikal vole · Orkney vole · common vole · volelike · white-footed vole · tundra vole · tree vole · creeping vole · montane vole · Oregon vole · Richardson's vole · Clarke's vole · singing vole · Maximowicz's vole · rock vole · Persian vole · yellow vole · taiga vole · Muskeget vole · Gull Island vole · southern vole · mole vole · sibling vole · lacustrine vole · plateau vole · Middendorff's vole · Muya Valley vole · Mexican vole · water vole · paradox vole · heather vole · reed vole · mandarin vole · royal vole · Olkhon Mountain vole · Shikotan vole · Pere David's vole · lemming vole · Szechuan vole · red-backed vole · Mongolian vole · Tyrrhenian vole · flat-headed vole · Buchanan vole · beach vole · mogollon vole · Brandt's vole · meadow vole · bank vole · Smith's vole · red tree vole · woodland vole · East European vole · Shansei vole · redback vole · Muisk vole · sagebrush vole · long-tailed vole · California vole · north Siberian vole · large-eared vole · Townsend's vole · snow vole · Nasarov's vole · narrow-headed vole · root vole · Evorsk vole

Hypernyms

creature · gnawer · vertebrate · myodont · rodent · mammal · animal · myomorph · critter · muroid · organism

Translations (56)

ms tikus padang (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · cs hryzec (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · bg полска мишка (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · sl voluharji (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · ja ハタネズミ (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · nl veldmuis (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · de Wühlmaus (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · fy wrotmûs (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · ro șoarece-de-câmp (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · ru полёвка (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · vls tope (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · nl woelmuis (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · it campagnolo (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · pt rato-do-campo (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · gl ougana (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · pl nornik (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · pl nornica (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · gl leirón (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · fi myyrä (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · ga vól (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · cs hraboš (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · oc rat de camp (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · grc σμίνθος (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · sh voluharica (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · cs norník (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · it arvicola (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · sh волухарица (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · hu pocok (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · fr campagnol (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · cmn 田鼠 (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · cy llygoden (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · kk тоқалтіс (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · nv łeeyiʼ bitiiní (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · es topillo (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · ca talpó (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · sh voluhar (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · sv sork (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · es campañol (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · rm mieur-sfuigna (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · gl luria (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · es rata de agua (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · pl polnik (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · bg полевка (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · ja 畑鼠 (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · gl furapozas (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · gl ouracán (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · fur surîs di campagne (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · da studsmus (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · sl voluhar (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · br muenn (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · id tikus padang (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · vi chuột đồng (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · sh волухар (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · eo arvikolo (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · oc campanhòl (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae) · fa ول (small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae)

wikidata: Q10952397 · wikipedia: Orkney

vole en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Borrowed from French vole.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
    • Ladies, I'll venture for the vole. 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift:
    • With humble curate can I now retire, (While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,) And at backgammon mortify my soul, That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole? 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Epilogue:

Forms

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vole en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

Borrowed from French vole.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
    • no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll. 1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC:

Forms

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voling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
voled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
voled Tense=Past lexicographic
voles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic