Polo Definition

pōlō
noun
A game played on horseback by two teams of four players each, who attempt to drive a small wooden ball through the opponents' goal with a mallet having a long, flexible handle.
Webster's New World

Water polo.

Webster's New World
A polo shirt.
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Other Word Forms of Polo

Noun

Singular:
polo
Plural:
polos

Origin of Polo

  • Balti (Tibeto-Burman language of Pakistan) ball Tibetan (Lhasa dialect) pulu

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Balti པོ་ལོ (pulu, “ball").

    From Wiktionary

Polo Sentence Examples

  • I have a couple of polo shirts, but no light shirts.

  • Give me one of those polo shirts and I'll go wash up.

  • It was Yancey, clad in boots, Jeans and a light blue polo shirt.

  • The islands are briefly noticed by Marco Polo, who probably saw without visiting them, under the name Angamanain, seemingly an Arabic dual, "The two Angamans," with the exaggerated but not unnatural picture of the natives, long current, as dog-faced Anthropophagi.

  • The name is often in popular literature written Cambalu, and is by Longfellow accented in verse Cambeilic. But this spelling originates in an accidental error in Ramusio's Italian version, which was the chief channel through which Marco Polo's book was popularly known.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOL

Words Ending With

OLOOLO

Unscrambles

polo

Words Starting With P and Ending With O

Starts With P & Ends With OStarts With PO & Ends With OStarts With P & Ends With LO

Word Length

4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With P4 Letter Words Ending With O