Meanings
dol1
DOL2
- USabbreviationinitialismInitialism of days of life.
- UKabbreviationinitialismInitialism of deprivation of liberty.
Dol3
- 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 13 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 50Memtimin 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
Dol4
- Synonym of Dol-de-Bretagne, France.
Synonyms: Dol-de-Bretagne, France
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe unit of measurement for pain.
proper nounA township in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
proper nounSynonym of Dol-de-Bretagne, France.
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nounthe federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
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Origin
dol · noun
- Latindolor“sorrow, pain”
- Englishdol
Clipping of Latin dolor (“sorrow, pain”). Doublet of dolor.
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Full word history & related roots →Dol · proper noun
- Uyghurدول
- EnglishDol
Borrowed from Uyghur دول (dol).
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Chinese Mandarin 多魯 /多鲁
- 多魯 /多鲁 (Duōlǔ)township in Lop, Hotan, Xinjiang, China
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Cite this entry
dol. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dol
“dol.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dol. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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