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pole has 6 distinct synonyms spread across 6 of its 13 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for pole come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions
“they are at opposite poles”
one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere
one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface
a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting
one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated