parole

1. 1.

   release a criminal from detention and place him on parole

   “The prisoner was paroled after serving 10 years in prison”

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Other forms of parole

plural

paroles·

past tense

paroled·

present participle

paroling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about parole

What does parole mean?

parole means "a promise". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parole?

parole has 2 syllables: paro-le. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /pɚˈoʊl/.

What is another word for parole?

Close synonyms include word, word of honor, password, watchword, word. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parole a common word?

parole is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with parole?

3 words rhyme with parole. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.