Football originally meant "a game played with a ball on foot" - unlike a game played on horseback, such as polo.
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Polo
//ˈpoʊloʊ//
Synonyms for "polo" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (2)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (3)
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1 entriescapable of
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2 entriesderived
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8 entriesrelated to
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
Translations
63 translations across 54 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- بُولُو noun (ball game)
- صَوْلَجَان noun (ball game)
- كُرَة وَ صَوْلَجَان noun (ball game)
Armenian
1 entries- պոլո noun (ball game)
Asturian
1 entries- polu noun (ball game)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Belarusian
1 entries- по́ла noun (ball game)
Bengali
1 entries- পোলো noun (ball game)
Bulgarian
1 entries- по́ло noun (ball game)
Burmese
1 entries- ဂူလီသဘင် noun (ball game)
Catalan
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 馬球 /马球 noun (ball game)
Czech
1 entries- pólo noun (ball game)
Danish
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Estonian
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Finnish
2 entries- hevospoolo noun (ball game)
- poolo noun (ball game)
French
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Galician
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Georgian
1 entries- ცხენბურთი noun (ball game)
German
1 entries- Polo noun (ball game)
Greek
1 entries- πόλο noun (ball game)
Gujarati
1 entries- પોલો noun (ball game)
Hausa
1 entries- hōlṑ noun (ball game)
Hebrew
1 entries- פּוֹלוֹ noun (ball game)
Hindi
2 entries- चौगान noun (ball game)
- पोलो noun (ball game)
Irish
1 entries- póló noun (ball game)
Italian
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Japanese
1 entries- ポロ noun (ball game)
Kazakh
2 entries- поло noun (ball game)
- шөген noun (ball game)
Korean
1 entries- 폴로 noun (ball game)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- поло noun (ball game)
Lithuanian
1 entries- polas noun (ball game)
Macedonian
1 entries- поло noun (ball game)
Marathi
1 entries- पोलो noun (ball game)
Nepali
1 entries- पोलो noun (ball game)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- çovgan noun (ball game)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Persian
1 entries- چوگان noun (ball game)
Polish
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Portuguese
1 entries- pólo noun (ball game)
Russian
1 entries- по́ло noun (ball game)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- polo noun (ball game)
- поло noun (ball game)
Sinhalese
1 entries- පෝලෝ noun (ball game)
Slovak
1 entries- pólo noun (ball game)
Spanish
1 entries- polo noun (ball game)
Swedish
1 entries- hästpolo noun (ball game)
Tajik
1 entries- чавгон noun (ball game)
Thai
1 entries- โปโล noun (ball game)
Tibetan
1 entries- པོ་ལོ noun (ball game)
Turkish
2 entries- polo noun (ball game)
- çevgen noun (ball game)
Ukrainian
1 entries- по́ло noun (ball game)
Urdu
1 entries- پولو noun (ball game)
Uzbek
2 entries- chavgon noun (ball game)
- polo noun (ball game)
Vietnamese
2 entries- mã cầu noun (ball game)
- pô-lô noun (ball game)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּאָלאָ noun (ball game)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The shirt she apparently seriously thought suited me I turned down and decided to accept a light blue polo shirt.
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I would kill for a plate of polo right now.
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As the Mongol Emperor who welcomed Marco Polo to China, Kublai Khan became a legend in Europe.
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