doles

Meaning of doles

noun
  1. benefit paid by the state to the unemployed.
    I was on the dole for three years
    my next dole cheque
verb, 3rd person present
  1. distribute shares of something.
    the scanty portions of food doled out to them

Old English dāl ‘division, portion, or share’, of Germanic origin; related to deal1. The sense ‘distribution of charitable gifts’ dates from Middle English; the sense ‘unemployment benefit’ dates from the early 20th century.

plural noun
  1. sorrow; mourning.
  2. a flock of doves.
    a dole of doves adorned its tiled roof

Middle English: from Old French doel ‘mourning’, from popular Latin dolus, from Latin dolere ‘grieve’.

Information about doles

  • The singular form of doles is: dole.
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Hyphenation of doles

doles

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • doles is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

doles synonyms

Meaning an advantage or profit gained from something:

benefit

Meaning the amount of something that is permitted, especially within a set of regulations or for a specified purpose:

allowance

Meaning the health, happiness, and fortunes of a person or group:

welfare

Meaning a sum of money given by a government or other organization for a particular purpose:

grant

Meaning distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose:

allocate

Meaning give or apportion (something) to someone:

allot

Meaning divide up and share out:

apportion

Meaning allocate (a job or duty):

assign

Meaning give a share or a unit of (something) to each of a number of recipients:

distribute

Meaning distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people:

dispense

Meaning supply or distribute (something) for use or sale:

issue

Meaning pay out (money from a fund):

disburse

Anagrams of doles

Delos, lodes, losed, solde, soled

Words that rhyme with doles

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