Meanings
present singular third person flagpoles · participle present flagpoling · participle past flagpoled · past flagpoled · alternative flag pole · alternative flag-pole
- CanadarareTo exit a country momentarily and reenter, usually in order to satisfy immigration requirements.
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I understand immigrating to Canada is getting harder and harder. [The difficulty of navigating bureaucracy] might be a way to let people fall between the cracks. I really don't know. The hoops immigrants have to go through, such as flagpoling. And I don't have any political representatives. I didn't vote.
2016, Beyhan Farhadi, “Identity and the City: Thinking Through Diversity”, in Jay Pitter, John Lorinc, editors, Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity
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nounsurveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From flag + pole. Cognate with West Frisian flaggepeal (“flagpole”), Dutch vlaggenpaal (“flagpole”), Low German Flaggenpohl (“flagpole”), German Flaggenpfahl (“flagpole”). Compare also West Frisian flaggemast (“flagpole”, literally “flag-mast”), Dutch vlaggenmast (“flagpole”, literally “flag-mast”), Low German Flaggstock (“flagpole”, literally “flag-stick”), Danish flagstang (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Swedish flaggstång (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Norwegian flaggstang (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Faroese flaggstong (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans vlagpaal
- vlagpaalpole for flags
Arabic سَارِيَةْ العَلَم
- سَارِيَةْ العَلَم (sāriyat al-ʕalam)pole for flags
Basque haga, masta
- hagapole for flags
- mastapole for flags
Bengali পতাকাদণ্ড
- পতাকাদণ্ড (potakadonḍo)pole for flags
Bulgarian флагщо́к
- флагщо́к (flagštók)pole for flags
Catalan asta
- astapole for flags
Chinese Cantonese 旗杆
- 旗杆 (kei⁴ gon¹)pole for flags
Chinese Mandarin 旗杆
- 旗杆 (qígān)pole for flags
Czech vlajkový stožár, žerď
- vlajkový stožárpole for flags
- žerďpole for flags
Danish flagstang
- flagstangpole for flags
Dutch vlaggenstok, vlaggenmast
- vlaggenstokpole for flags
- vlaggenmastpole for flags
Esperanto flagstango
- flagstangopole for flags
Estonian lipuvarras
- lipuvarraspole for flags
Finnish lippusalko
- lippusalkopole for flags
French mât de drapeau, mât
- mât de drapeaupole for flags
- mâtpole for flags
German Fahnenmast, Fahnenstange
- Fahnenmastpole for flags
- Fahnenstangepole for flags
Greek κοντάρι σημαίας
- κοντάρι σημαίας (kontári simaías)pole for flags
Hawaiian kia hae
- kia haepole for flags
Hebrew מוֹט הַדֶגֶל
- מוֹט הַדֶגֶל (mot hadegel)pole for flags
Hindi ध्वजदंड
- ध्वजदंड (dhvajdaṇḍ)pole for flags
Hungarian zászlórúd
- zászlórúdpole for flags
Icelandic stöng, flaggstöng
- stöngpole for flags
- flaggstöngpole for flags
Indonesian tiang bendera
- tiang benderapole for flags
Irish crann brataí
- crann brataípole for flags
Italian pennone
- pennonepole for flags
Japanese 旗竿
- 旗竿 (hatazao)pole for flags
Korean 깃대
- 깃대 (gitdae)pole for flags
Latvian karoga kārts
- karoga kārtspole for flags
Lithuanian vėliavos stiebas, flagštokas
- vėliavos stiebaspole for flags
- flagštokaspole for flags
Malay tiang bendera
- tiang benderapole for flags
Māori pou kara, pou haki
- pou karapole for flags
- pou hakipole for flags
Norwegian Bokmål flaggstang
- flaggstangpole for flags
Persian میله پرچم
- میله پرچم (milah-e parčam)pole for flags
Polish flagsztok, maszt flagowy
- flagsztokpole for flags
- maszt flagowypole for flags
Portuguese mastro
- mastropole for flags
Romanian catarg de steag, catarg
- catarg de steagpole for flags
- catargpole for flags
Russian дре́вко, флагшто́к
- дре́вко (drévko)pole for flags
- флагшто́к (flagštók)pole for flags
Scottish Gaelic bratchrann
- bratchrannpole for flags
Slovak stožiar, vlajkový stožiar
- stožiarpole for flags
- vlajkový stožiarpole for flags
Spanish asta, astabandera
- astapole for flags
- astabanderapole for flags
- mástilpole for flags
Swedish flaggstång
- flaggstångpole for flags
Tagalog tagdan ng bandila
- tagdan ng bandilapole for flags
Tamil கொடிக்கம்பம்
- கொடிக்கம்பம் (koṭikkampam)pole for flags
Thai เสาธง
- เสาธง (sǎo-tong)pole for flags
Turkish bayrak direği
- bayrak direğipole for flags
Ukrainian флагшто́к
- флагшто́к (flahštók)pole for flags
Vietnamese cột cờ
- cột cờpole for flags
Welsh polyn fflag
- polyn fflagpole for flags
Yiddish פֿאָנענמאַסט
- פֿאָנענמאַסט (fonenmast)pole for flags
Cite this entry
flagpole. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flagpole
“flagpole.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flagpole. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flagpole,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flagpole.
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