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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
polo
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
polo neck
▪ a polo-neck sweater
polo shirt
water polo
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
field
▪ They met on the polo field 20 years ago and the attraction was present from the start.
▪ Now he was laying out a polo field next to the house.
▪ One level up, there was a polo field which looked useful for efforts.
▪ There are few, if any, signs to direct visitors to the Saratoga polo fields.
▪ He retreated to Highgrove and took out some of his frustration on the soil and the polo field.
▪ The luncheon took place in a giant marquee with windows looking out across the polo field.
match
▪ And she sported the frock alongside Charles at a Windsor polo match.
▪ Enthusiastically squired to polo matches, luncheons, swims, and tennis matches, Margarett did not miss Eddie.
▪ With Prince Andrew and Charles at a polo match.
▪ A protective Prince angrily telling photographers to leave his wife alone at a polo match Leaving hospital with Prince William.
▪ It is hoped to have another polo match here next year and perhaps make it an annual event.
▪ A year on and yet another polo match.
neck
▪ Patterned Fair Isle yoke pullovers came in at this time, then polo necks.
▪ He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots.
▪ But the good news is that the word jazz is no longer synonymous with earnest types in black polo necks.
player
▪ Angel was now desperately trying to make his way as a professional polo player.
▪ One weekend last month, water polo player Kirk Everist did something for his soul instead of his sport.
pony
▪ We were once sent a polo pony to get fit for the coming polo season who was terrified of his mouth.
▪ Sara had letters to people who owned polo ponies and valuable land for development.
▪ In winter he put his polo ponies out to grass at Highgrove, and got his hunters into peak condition.
shirt
▪ Wearing her navy shorts and a jade-green polo shirt, she felt cool and fresh.
▪ Gary wears regulation Levi 501 jeans and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt.
▪ The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans.
▪ Or buy a tailored polo shirt that fits?
▪ Right Long-sleeve polo shirt, £16.99; trousers, fencer's own.
▪ He was wearing a blue blazer and a white polo shirt.
▪ Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.
▪ Everybody here is dressed for the Love Boat, in shorts, polo shirts and Reeboks.
team
▪ A former captain of a winning Blues polo team, he still retains some of the rivalry with Oxford.
water
▪ In the afternoon, swimming games water polo, diving etc.
▪ Louis, where the water polo competition was staged in an artificial pond.
▪ Has to be team handball, an exciting blend of basketball, soccer, hockey and water polo.
▪ One weekend last month, water polo player Kirk Everist did something for his soul instead of his sport.
■ VERB
play
▪ I promised Madeleine last night I'd go with them to see Dunbar playing polo.
▪ The following day he played polo.
▪ Prince Charles regularly plays polo there.
▪ They were interested spectators while he played polo, went fishing or fox hunting.
▪ It seemed that when the Prince was not at home, he was playing polo.
▪ Charles played polo unremittingly three or four times a week.
wear
▪ The young man and woman wore polo shirts and shorts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among the 43-year-old Sydney woman's famous clients is Prince Charles, whom she treated after his much-publicised polo injury.
▪ But there had been no question of them taking up polo professionally.
▪ Prince Charles regularly plays polo there.
▪ The Classics Polo Match By the time the polo was due to start it was teeming with rain!
▪ The following day he played polo.
▪ There are few, if any, signs to direct visitors to the Saratoga polo fields.
▪ There is a tall one with seven days of stubble, who wears a navy tracksuit and white polo.
▪ We were once sent a polo pony to get fit for the coming polo season who was terrified of his mouth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polo

Polo \Po"lo\, n. [Of Eastern origin; -- properly, the ball used in the game.]

  1. A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.

  2. A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

  3. A game similar to hockey played by swimmers.

Polo

Polo \Po"lo\, n. [Sp., an air or popular song in Andalucia.] A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
polo

1872, Anglo-Indian polo, from Balti (Tibetan language of the Indus valley) polo "ball," related to Tibetan pulu "ball." An ancient game in south Asia, first played in England at Aldershot, 1871. Water polo is from 1876 (in early versions players sometimes paddled about on barrels or in canoes). Polo shirt (1892) originally was a kind worn by polo players.

Wiktionary
polo

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal. 2 A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates. 3 (context countable English) A polo shirt. Etymology 2

n. A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the foot merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

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Polo, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 582
Housing Units (2000): 262
Land area (2000): 0.578310 sq. miles (1.497817 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.578310 sq. miles (1.497817 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58916
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.552842 N, 94.039022 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64671
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Polo, MO
Polo
Polo, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 2477
Housing Units (2000): 1081
Land area (2000): 1.313234 sq. miles (3.401260 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.313234 sq. miles (3.401260 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60937
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.986852 N, 89.577100 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61064
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Polo, IL
Polo
Wikipedia
Polo

Polo ( Persian: چوگان chogān) is a team sport played on horseback. The objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. The traditional sport of polo is played on a grass field up to . Each polo team consists of four riders and their mounts. Field polo is played with a solid plastic sphere (ball) which has replaced the wooden version of the ball in much of the sport. In arena polo, only three players are required per team and the game usually involves more manoeuvreing and shorter plays at lower speeds due to space limitations of the arena. Arena polo is played with a small air-filled ball, similar to a small football. The modern game lasts roughly two hours and is divided into periods called chukkas (occasionally rendered as "chukkers"). Polo is played professionally in 16 countries. It was formerly an Olympic sport.

Polo (confectionery)

Polo Mints are a brand of mints whose defining feature is the hole in the middle. The peppermint flavoured polo was first manufactured in the United Kingdom in 1948 by employee John Bargewell at the Rowntree's Factory, York, and a range of flavours followed. The name derives from "polar", referencing the cool and fresh taste of the mint.

Polo (disambiguation)

Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. It may also refer to:

Polo (music)

Polo designates two forms of Venezuelan folk music. One that originates from Margarita Island and another one that is played in Coro, in the state of Falcón.

Polo (flamenco palo)

Polo is the name of a flamenco palo or musical form. There is only one known song in this palo, which is extremely similar to another palo called caña, and its guitar accompaniment, like the caña, shares its rhythm and motifs with soleá. Both the caña and polo share the same musical mode. The polo has usually been considered as a derivation of the caña. To complete the singing of the polo, singers usually sing a stanza in the palo of soleá, generally in the style called soleá apolá.

Although nowadays, only one song is known for the polo, known as polo natural, past writers also mention another polo, called polo de Tobalo, which has probably been lost.

Polo (surname)

Polo is the surname of:

  • Marco Polo (1254–1324), Italian trader and explorer
  • Niccolò and Maffeo Polo (1230–1294 and 1230–1309 respectively), Marco Polo's father and uncle respectively
  • Aldo Polo (born 1983), Mexican footballer
  • Andy Polo (born 1994), Peruvian footballer
  • Ana María Polo (born 1959), Cuban-American lawyer and Hispanic television arbitrator
  • Armando Polo (born 1990), Panamanian footballer
  • Asier Polo, Spanish cellist
  • Bernardo Polo (died c. 1700), Spanish painter
  • Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás (1900–1988), wife of Francisco Franco and a member of the Spanish nobility
  • Danny Polo (1901–1949), American jazz clarinetist
  • Dean Polo (born 1986), Australian rules footballer
  • Diego Polo the Elder (1560–1600), Spanish Renaissance painter
  • Diego Polo the Younger (1620–1655) Spanish Baroque painter, nephew of the above
  • Eddie Polo (1875–1961), Austro-American actor of the silent era born Edward W. Wyman or Weimer
  • Edward Polo (born 1989), Nigerian footballer
  • Enrico Polo (1868–1953), Italian violinist, composer and pedagogue
  • Gaspar Gil Polo (1530?-1591), Spanish novelist and poet
  • Joe Polo (born 1982), American curler
  • Leonardo Polo (1926–2013), Spanish philosopher
  • Malvina Polo (1903–2000), American actress, daughter of Eddie Polo
  • Roberto Polo (born 1980), Colombian footballer
  • Saul Polo, Canadian politician
  • Teri Polo (born 1969), American actress
Polo (given name)

Polo is the given name of:

  • Polo Carrera (born 1945), Ecuadorian retired footballer
  • Polo Hofer (born 1945), Swiss musician
  • Polo Villaamil (born 1979), Spanish auto racing drive
  • Polo Wila (born 1987), Ecuadorian footballer

Usage examples of "polo".

They went into the drawing-room in a body and found Captain Baster still talking to their mother, in the middle, indeed, of a long story illustrating his prowess in a game of polo, on two three-hundred-guinea and one three-hundred-and-fifty-guinea ponies.

Ibn Battuta lived there for seven years and, like Marco Polo before him, was appointed as an ambassador, in his case to the sultan of Delhi.

The engine telegraph clanged, and Bloodhound pivoted like a polo pony.

I think we should spend the night here, whether the Polos are inside or not.

As soon as Hunter found out that the Polos had not taken the road north, he would come right back.

Besides, if the Polos had passed through the gate, the sentries were the ones to ask.

The slave Nostril fed and curried and combed our horses to prime condition, and we Polos made conversation with other karwan journeyers.

One that had come to court before we Polos arrived was still being recounted and discussed and argued over.

So we Polos, having to go north and having no experience of travel in such terrain and conditions, had waited for the prudent others.

I saw no other Venetian traders in the city, or Genoese or Pisan or any other of our commercial rivals, but we Polos were not the only white men.

Anyway, when we Polos left Kashgar, I was still accustomed to calculating in farsakhs, so it did not much dismay me to say to myself that we had only some eight or nine hundred of them to go to Khanbalik.

Why did Ussu and Donduk, though they knew all our names and had no trouble saying them, always address us Polos indiscriminately as Ferenghi?

Meanwhile, as my father and uncle all along intended, Venice and the rest of Europe have profited from increased trade with the East, a trade much facilitated by the copies of all our maps of the Silk Road which we Polos brought home from there.

She and the leading nobles of her company and the three envoys from Persia and we three Polos and most of the Khanbalik court all sat down with Kubilai to a farewell banquet in the same vast chamber where we had enjoyed our welcoming banquet so long before.

Marco Polo wrote of vendors hawking threads of sweetened ginger on Chinese streets.