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say it: POH-loh
polo is a noun meaning "Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)
a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for polo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.