Definition of sole

"sole" in the noun sense

1. sole

the underside of footwear or a golf club

2. sole, fillet of sole

lean flesh of any of several flatfish

3. sole

the underside of the foot

4. sole

right-eyed flatfish many are valued as food most common in warm seas especially European

"sole" in the verb sense

1. sole, resole

put a new sole on

"sole the shoes"

"sole" in the adjective sense

1. exclusive, sole

not divided or shared with others

"they have exclusive use of the machine"

"sole rights of publication"

2. lone, lonesome, only, sole, solitary

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"

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Quotations for sole

The sole holds with the upper leather. [ Proverb ]

Could he with reason murmur at his case
Himself sole author of his own disgrace? [ Cowper ]

Religion crowns the statesman and the man,
Sole source of public and of private peace. [ Young ]

That was his sole delight and solace in his woe. [ Virgil ]

From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Chance is blind and is the sole author of creation. [ Saintine ]

My sole resources in the path I trod,
Were these - my bark - my sword - my love — my God.
The last I left in youth - He leaves me now -
And man but works His will to lay me low.
I have no thought to mock His throne with prayer,
Wrung from the coward crouching of despair;
It is enough - I breathe - and I can bear. [ Byron ]

Experience teacheth us that resolution is a sole help in need. [ William Shakespeare ]

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Such, whose sole bliss is eating, who can give but that one brutal reason why they live. [ Juvenal ]

We tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. [ Bulwer Lytton ]

If you would make a pair of good shoes, take for the sole the tongue of a woman: it never wears out. [ Alsatian Proverb ]

Time, the corrector when our judgments err, the test of truth and love; sole philosopher, for all besides are sophists. [ Byron ]

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world. [ Hermes ]

Here, in the country, my books are my sole occupation: books my sure solace, and refuge from frivolous cares. Books the calmers, as well as the instruction of the mind. [ Mrs. Inchbald ]

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth; he has twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him: he hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]

The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]

sole in Scrabble®

The word sole is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters sole:

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sole in Words With Friends™

The word sole is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters sole:

LOSE
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Word Growth involving sole

Shorter words in sole

so sol

Longer words containing sole

azoxyanisole azoxyanisoles

camisole

cassolette cassolettes

console consoled reconsoled

console consoled unconsoled

console consolement

console consoler consolers

console consoles reconsoles

console reconsole reconsoled

console reconsole reconsoles

insole insolence

insole insolent insolently

insole insoles

lysolecithin lysolecithins

mausolea

mausoleum mausoleums

mesolecithal

obsolete nonobsolete

obsolete obsoletely

outsole outsoles

plimsole plimsoles

resole resoled

resole resoles

solecise solecised

solecise solecises

solecising

solecism solecisms

solecist solecistic solecistical solecistically

solecist solecists

solecize solecized

solecize solecizes

solecizing

soled consoled reconsoled

soled consoled unconsoled

soled resoled

solely

solemn solemner

solemn solemness

solemn solemnest

solemn solemnification solemnifications

solemn solemnified

solemn solemnifies

solemn solemnifing

solemn solemnify solemnifying

solemn solemnisation solemnisations

solemn solemnise solemnised

solemn solemnise solemniser solemnisers

solemn solemnise solemnises

solemn solemnising

solemn solemnities

solemn solemnity

solemn solemnization solemnizations

solemn solemnize solemnized

solemn solemnize solemnizer solemnizers

solemn solemnize solemnizes

solemn solemnizing

solemn solemnly

solemn solemnness

soleness

solenocyte solenocytes

solenocytic

solenoid solenoidal solenoidally

solenoid solenoids

solenostele solenosteles

solenostelic

solenostely

soleplate soleplates

soleprint soleprints

soles azoxyanisoles

soles consoles reconsoles

soles insoles

soles obsolesce obsolesced

soles obsolesce obsolescence nonobsolescence

soles obsolesce obsolescent nonobsolescent

soles obsolesce obsolesces

soles obsolescing

soles outsoles

soles plimsoles

soles resoles

soles typhlosoles

typhlosole typhlosoles

undersole