sole

1. 1.

   not divided or shared with others

   “they have exclusive use of the machine”

   “sole rights of publication”

   Synonymsexclusive

   Similarunshared
2. 2.

   being the only one; single and isolated from others

   “the lone doctor in the entire county”

   “a lonesome pine”

   “an only child”

   “the sole heir”

   “the sole example”

   “a solitary instance of cowardice”

   “a solitary speck in the sky”

   Synonymslonelonesomeonlysolitary

   Similarsingle

1. 1.

   put a new sole on

   “sole the shoes”

   Synonymsresole

   Broaderrepair

Other forms of sole

plural

soles·

past tense

soled·

present participle

soling·

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 sole

What does sole mean?

sole means "the underside of footwear or a golf club". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sole?

sole has 1 syllable: sole. In IPA it is /ˈsoʊl/.

What is another word for sole?

Close synonyms include fillet of sole, exclusive, lone, lonesome, only. 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 sole a common word?

sole 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 sole?

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