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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The lower house of the modern Greek legislature.
  2. n. The senate of 400 founded by Solon in ancient Athens.
  3. n. A legislative assembly in any one of the ancient Greek states.
  4. n. A pear-shaped synthetic sapphire, ruby, or other alumina-based gem, produced by fusing and tinting alumina.
  5. n. A round loaf of white bread.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The proper French spelling of buhl.
  2. n. In Greek antiquity, a legislative council, originally aristocratic, consisting of the heads of the citizen families, sitting under the presidency of the king. Later, in Ionian states, where a democratic polity had prevailed, the boule, particularly at Athens, became a second or higher popular assembly, corresponding to the senate in modern governments. At Athens the boule consisted of 500 citizens over 30 years of age, chosen annually by lot. 50 from each tribe. It had charge of the official religious rites important in the ancient world, and its chief legislative duties were to examine or prepare bills for presentation to the popular assembly (the real governing body), which could modify or reject the conclusions reached by the senate, and to advise the assembly regarding affairs of state. The Athenian boule had also some executive functions, especially in connection with the management of the navy and the cavalry. Compare gerusia.
  3. n. The legislative assembly of modern Greece.
  4. n. An obsolete form of bowl.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
  2. n. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
  3. n. A round loaf of bread.
  4. n. woodworking A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
  5. n. woodworking Alternative form of buhl.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Same as buhl, buhlwork.
  2. n. (Gr. Antiq.) A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate.
  3. n. Legislature of modern Greece. See Legislature.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of Boulle. See buhl. (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek boulē, assembly; see gwelə- in Indo-European roots.French, ball, from Old French, bubble, from Latin bulla. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. senate

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Other words for ‘boule’

  1. boulework

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  1. embellishment

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  3. montre
  1. eglise
  2. proofer
  3. muraille
  1. election-year
  2. feuilletee
  3. constitue

rhymes (41)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Abdul
  2. Boole
  3. Dzhambul
  4. Istanbul
  5. Jewel
  6. Joule
  7. Poole
  8. Rahul
  1. Raul
  2. Yule
  3. brule
  4. buhl
  5. cool
  6. cruel
  7. drool
  8. dual
  1. dule
  2. fool
  3. fuel
  4. ghoul
  5. home-school
  6. jewel
  7. joule
  8. juel
  1. kool
  2. misrule
  3. mule
  4. pool
  5. preschool
  6. retool
  7. reul
  8. reule
  1. rule
  2. school
  3. spool
  4. stool
  5. supercool
  6. tool
  7. tuel
  8. uncool
  1. yule

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. bouleutai
  1. gerousia
  1. bule
  1. buhl-saw
  1. bouleutic
  1. buhl

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  1. bi-sonic

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  • trivet I'd only ever encountered boule in bakeries, but:

    1. A pear-shaped synthetic sapphire, ruby, or other alumina-based gem, produced by fusing and tinting alumina.
    2. A round loaf of white bread.
    (French, ball, from Old French, bubble, from Latin bulla.)

    3. The lower house of the modern Greek legislature.
    4. - a. The senate of 400 founded by Solon in ancient Athens.
    - b. A legislative assembly in any one of the ancient Greek states.
    (Greek boul, assembly; see gwel- in Indo-European roots.)

    5. an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork (syn: boulle) May 21, 2007

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