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- [pawl]
- /pɔl/
- /pɔːl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [pawl]
- /pɔl/
Definitions of pall word
- noun pall a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb. 1
- noun pall a coffin. 1
- noun pall anything that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, especially with darkness or gloom. 1
- noun pall Ecclesiastical. pallium (def 2b). a linen cloth or a square cloth-covered piece of cardboard used to cover a chalice. 1
- noun pall Heraldry. pairle. 1
- noun pall Archaic. a cloth spread upon an altar; corporal. 1
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Origin of pall
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English pæll pope's pallium < Latin pallium cloak
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Parts of speech for Pall
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
pall popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pall usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pall
verb pall
- bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
- bushing — an adaptor having ends of unequal diameters, often with internal screw threads, used to connect pipes of different sizes
- cloy — to make weary or cause weariness through an excess of something initially pleasurable or sweet
- come to nothing — plan, idea: fail
- die out — If something dies out, it becomes less and less common and eventually disappears completely.
noun pall
- cerecloth — waxed waterproof cloth of a kind formerly used as a shroud
- cerement — any burial clothes
- coffin — A coffin is a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
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