Definitions for sole

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sole sole

Spelling: [sohl]

IPA: /soʊl/

Sole is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in sole (elos).

Definitions for sole

noun

1. the bottom or under surface of the foot.
2. the corresponding under part of a shoe, boot, or the like, or this part exclusive of the heel.
3. the bottom, under surface, or lower part of anything.
4. Carpentry. the underside of a plane. soleplate.
5. Golf. the part of the head of the club that touches the ground.
6. a European flatfish, Solea solea, used for food.
7. any other flatfish of the families Soleidae and Cynoglossidae, having a hooklike snout.

adjective

1. being the only one; only:
2. being the only one of the kind; unique; unsurpassed; matchless:
3. belonging or pertaining to one individual or group to the exclusion of all others; exclusive:
4. functioning automatically or with independent power:
5. Chiefly Law. unmarried; not married.
6. without company or companions; lonely:
7. Archaic. alone.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a sole, as a shoe.
2. Golf. to place the sole of (a club) on the ground, as in preparation for a stroke.

Origin of sole

1350-1400; Latin sōlus alone; replacing Middle English soule alone Old French sol Latin sōlus

Examples for sole

No wonder criminal-justice reform is no longer the sole concern of balladeers and bleeding hearts.

Their sole experience of prayer was connected with the South End Mission.

His sole business was to take the girl away when the interview should be ended.

Well, so much for Obama being the sole culprit for why we think America is on the wrong track.

It stands for the proposition that the biological basis of procreation should also be the sole organizing principle of society.

Through the teaching of Moses he was to become the sole Master of the Jewish race.

Jourdan Dunn is the first sole black woman to feature on a British ‘Vogue’ cover in 12 years.

It caused them to fight for the sole possession of this Paradise upon Earth.

"Spoils the hoof to put the knife on the sole, Buck," said the smith.

A moment ago the drawing-room had seemed empty; Mrs. Luke, in her sole person, filled and illuminated it.