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Paul

Noun CEFR B1
pɔːl

Definitions

  1. In the New Testament, Saul, Apostle to the Gentiles and author of fourteen epistles.
  2. An old Italian silver coin; a paolo.
  3. Archaic form of pawl (“mechanical device”).
    alt-of, archaic
  4. A small tent of various kinds.
  5. A male given name from Latin of biblical origin.
  6. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  7. A place name:
  8. An unincorporated community in Conecuh County, Alabama, United States, named after Paul the Apostle.
  9. A city in Minidoka County, Idaho, United States.
  10. An unincorporated community in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.
  11. A village south of Newlyn in Penzance parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW4627). The civil parish of Paul (abolished 2021) did not include the village in latter years, and is now included in St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul.
  12. A municipality on Santo Antão, Cape Verde.

Equivalents

Españolpablo
FrançaisPaul
DeutschPaulPaulus
47 more languages
አማርኛጳውሎስ
العربيةبولبولس
БеларускаяПа́валпол
Българскипол
Catalàpaupol
ČeštinaPavel
CymraegPaulPawl
ΕλληνικάΠαύλοςΠολ
EsperantoPaŭlo
ʻŌlelo HawaiʻiPaulo
עבריתפול
MagyarPál
ՀայերենՊողոս
ÍslenskaPáll
ItalianoPaolo
日本語パウロ
ქართულიპავლე
Қазақ тіліПауыл
Kurdîpalpol
LatinaPaulus
LietuviųPaulius
LatviešuPaulsPāvils
МакедонскиПавле
NederlandsPaulPauluspol
PortuguêspaulPaulo
RomânăPavel
РусскийПавелпол
SlovenčinaPavol
SlovenščinaPavel
СрпскиPavelpolпол
KiswahiliPaulo
తెలుగుపాల్
УкраїнськаPavełПавло

Examples

Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him.”
“'He will be christened Paul, my - Mrs Dombey - of course.' She feebly echoed, 'Of course,' or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again. 'His father's name, Mrs Dombey, and his grandfather's! I wish his grandfather were alive this day! There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior,' said Mr Dombey, making a fictitious autograph on his knee; 'but it is merely of a private and personal complexion. It doesn't enter into the correspondence of the House. Its signature remains the same.'”
Primarily seen as a publicity vehicle for late-year releases, the awards show and its promoters have lately made pretensions to Oscar oracling: Jamie Foxx won thebreakthrough actor of the yearprize forRay” in 2004, after all, and Paul Haggis and his ensemble cast were honored forCrashfour months before it won best picture.”
Toyota spokesman Paul Hogard said the automaker wants speedometers to be easy to read, so there’s value in placing the typical operating speed of American cars, 45 mph to 70 mph, he said, at the top of the speedometer, which is the easiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read.”
“In a Fox Business interview on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) alluded to the distinction between private and government responses to offensive speech, but his comments were ambiguous enough that an uncharitable viewer could easily interpret them as approval of the latter.”
Shoes and boots are, generally speaking, better made at Florence than in any other part of Italy: the usual price charged for the former is eight pauls the pair; and for the latter from thirty to forty pauls.”
“As soon as the horse again begins to move, the paul will take into the teeth of the ratchet-wheel, and restore to the fly-wheel its original speed.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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