poll

1. 1.

   get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

   Synonymscanvass

   Broadersurvey

   Narrowercircularize
2. 2.

   vote in an election at a polling station

   Broadervote
3. 3.

   get the votes of

   Broaderget
4. 4.

   convert into a pollard

   “pollard trees”

   Synonymspollard

   Broadersnip

Other forms of poll

plural

polls·

past tense

polled·

present participle

polling·

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 poll

What does poll mean?

poll means "an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in poll?

poll has 1 syllable: poll. In IPA it is /ˈpoʊl/.

What is another word for poll?

Close synonyms include opinion poll, public opinion poll, canvass, pate, crown. 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 poll a common word?

poll is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 poll?

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