English Explanatory Dictionary

shoal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Shallow.
noun
  1. A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
  2. A shallow in a body of water.
verb
  1. To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
  2. To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
  3. To become shallow.
noun
  1. Any large number of persons or things.
  2. A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
verb
  1. To collect in a shoal; to throng.

Pronunciation

/ʃəʊl/ en-us-shoal.ogg

Word forms

shoal shoaler shoalest sheld shole shoald shold shaul shawl shauld schald shaud shawd shoals shoaling shoaled

Etymology

From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow.

Synonyms

bank bar sandbar sandbank school

Derived words

Glenburnie-Birchy Head-Shoal Brook James Shoal Muscle Shoals Panatag Shoal Rocks and Shoals Scarborough Shoal Shoal Bay shoaler shoal grass Shoal Harbour shoaling wave shoalness shoalweed shoaly Truro Shoal wave shoaling shoalwise

Translations

Bulgarian: плитчина Czech: mělčina Finnish: matalikko German: Gelungg Ancient Greek: τέναγος Māori: pāti Spanish: bajío
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