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toll
English
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- Rhymes: -əʊl
Pronunciation 1
Noun
Singular |
Plural |
- A fee for using something, esp. of roads and bridges
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster
- The war has taken its toll on the people.
Derived terms
Translations
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Pronunciation 2
Noun
Singular |
Plural |
- The act or sound of tolling
Verb
Infinitive |
Third person singular |
Simple past |
Past participle |
Present participle |
- To make the noise of a bell
- For whom the bell tolls.
- To ring a bell slowly and repeatedly
- To announce by tolling
- The bells tolled the King’s death.
- (law) To suspend
- The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.
Translations
Catalan
Noun
toll
German
Etymology
Old High German tol
Pronunciation
Adjective
toll
See also
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtolː/
Noun
toll (plural tollak)
Declension
Declension of toll
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Derived terms
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA: [t̪ˠoːl̪ˠ], [t̪ˠɔl̪ˠ]
Verb
toll (present tollann, past tholl, future tollfaidh, conditional thollfadh, past participle tollta, verbal noun tolladh)
Mutation
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis | |
toll | tholl | dtoll | |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Old English
Etymology
Borrowed into Germanic (*tolla-) from vulgar Latin toloneum, from late Latin teloneum, from Greek τελώνιον ‘toll-house’, from τέλος ‘tax’. Germanic cognates include Old Saxon tol (Dutch tol), Old High German zol (German Zoll), Old Norse tollr (Swedish tull). See also parallel forms represented by Old English toln.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /tol:/
Noun
toll n
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