dol

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noun

The unit of measurement for pain.

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dolorUSDOLDuoluTo-luDol-de-BretagneFranceDepartment of LaborLabor Department
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Meanings

dol1

noundol (plural dols)

plural dols

  1. medicineThe unit of measurement for pain.

    Synonyms: dolor

DOL2

proper noun
  1. USabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Department of Labor.

    Synonyms: USDOL

noun
  1. USabbreviationinitialismInitialism of days of life.
  2. UKabbreviationinitialismInitialism of deprivation of liberty.

Dol3

proper noun
  1. A township in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

    Journey across desert. Two Langars at 5th and 8th mile. Enter on cultivation at 14th mile, close to the village of Dol. Road excellent.

    1893, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), “Journey of Carey and Dalgleish in Chinese Turkistan and Northern Tibet in 1885–7”, in Supplementary Papers, volume 3, J. Murray, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22, part 1
    3 more examples

    Obul Kasem Imin, a Uighur from Dol village in Lop county, near Khotan, was reportedly taken into custody by public security officers from Lop County in September 1996 for "speaking out against the government".

    1999, People's Republic of China: Gross Violations of Human Rights in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Amnesty International USA, →OCLC, page 50

    Memtimin Abla, deputy chief of police of the Lop county police department, told RFA that the three attackers were all from Dol township in Lop county and between the ages of 18 and 20.

    2015 May 13, Roseanne Gerin, Shohret Hoshur, “Six Dead, Four Injured in Two Successive Suicide Attacks in China’s Xinjiang”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 18 May 2015

    “Head out boldly and bring back the cash,” a village official in Dol Township in southern Xinjiang told dozens of farmers, according a local government report last year. The village officials urged team leaders to take special care of three villagers in their 60s who had signed up to pick cotton, the report said.

    2019 December 30, Chris Buckley, Austin Ramzy, “To China, Muslim Workers Are Eager Recruits. Others See Forced Labor.”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2019

    Synonyms: Duolu, To-lu

Dol4

proper noun

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe unit of measurement for pain.

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proper nounA township in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

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DuoluTo-lu

proper nounSynonym of Dol-de-Bretagne, France.

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913

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Department of LaborLabor DepartmentLabor
Broader
executive department

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

dol · noun

  1. Latindolor“sorrow, pain”
  2. Englishdol

Clipping of Latin dolor (“sorrow, pain”). Doublet of dolor.

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Dol · proper noun

  1. Uyghurدول
  2. EnglishDol

Borrowed from Uyghur دول (dol).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 多魯 /多鲁
  • 多魯 /多鲁 (Duōlǔ)township in Lop, Hotan, Xinjiang, China

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Cite this entry
APA

dol. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dol

MLA

“dol.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dol. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dol,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dol.

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