Boule

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The lower house of the modern Greek legislature.
  • n. The senate of 400 founded by Solon in ancient Athens.
  • n. A legislative assembly in any one of the ancient Greek states.
  • n. A pear-shaped synthetic sapphire, ruby, or other alumina-based gem, produced by fusing and tinting alumina.
  • n. A round loaf of white bread.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
  • n. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
  • n. A round loaf of bread.
  • n. A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
  • n. Alternative form of buhl.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as buhl, buhlwork.
  • n. A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate.
  • n. Legislature of modern Greece. See Legislature.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The proper French spelling of buhl.
  • n. In Greek antiquity, a legislative council, originally aristocratic, consisting of the heads of the citizen families, sitting under the presidency of the king.
  • n. The legislative assembly of modern Greece.
  • n. An obsolete form of bowl.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork
  • Equivalent
    boulework   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    buhl    buhlwork    legislature   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    senate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abdul    Boole    Dzhambul    Istanbul    Jewel    Joule    Poole    Rahul    Raul    Yule   
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