English Explanatory Dictionary

vole

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.
noun
  1. A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
verb
  1. To win all the tricks by a vole.

Pronunciation

/vəʊl/ [vɔʊɫ] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vole.wav /voʊl/ [voɫ] [voːɫ] /vəʉl/ /vɐʉl/ /vol/

Word forms

vole voles voling voled

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.

Derived words

Amargosa vole bank vole beach vole Brandt's vole Buchanan vole California vole Clarke's vole common vole creeping vole East European vole Evorsk vole field vole flat-headed vole Gull Island vole heather vole lacustrine vole Lake Baikal vole large-eared vole lemming vole long-tailed vole mandarin vole Marie's vole Maximowicz's vole meadow vole Mexican vole Middendorff's vole mogollon vole mole vole Mongolian vole montane vole mountain vole Muisk vole Murree vole Muskeget vole Muya Valley vole narrow-headed vole Nasarov's vole north Siberian vole Olkhon Mountain vole Oregon vole Orkney vole paradox vole Pere David's vole Persian vole pine vole plateau vole prairie vole red-backed vole redback vole reed vole Richardson's vole rock vole root vole royal vole sagebrush vole Schidlovsky's vole Shansei vole Shikotan vole sibling vole singing vole
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