Synonyms for mole

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mohl

Phonetic Transcription : moʊl

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Définition of mole

Origin : spot on skin, Old English mal "spot, mark, blemish," especially on cloth or linen, from Proto-Germanic *mailan "spot, mark" (cf. Old High German meil, German Mal, Gothic mail "wrinkle"), from PIE root *mai- "to stain, defile" (cf. Greek miainein "to stain, defile," see miasma). Specifically of dark marks on human skin from late 14c.

noun blemish
noun spy

Example sentences :

I fell asleep and dreamed that I was in the fracas at the end of the mole.
Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 » by Various

You think this is a human village; but it is the village of me, your master the mole.
Extract from : « Aino Folk-Tales » by Basil Hall Chamberlain

What a fearful thing, something was boring away like a mole!
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

He awaited them on the mole, supported by a group of officers.
Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini

He had accomplished much, working as a mole works, in the dark.
Extract from : « The Crevice » by William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

It will take us a half hour to reach the mole, where the boat awaits us.
Extract from : « A Romance of the West Indies » by Eugne Sue

Our sight is like that of the mole burrowing under the ground.
Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America

How came I to know that you have a mole upon your left cheek?
Extract from : « A Walk from London to Fulham » by Thomas Crofton Croker

Those of us who are going aboard will now do well to get back to the mole.
Extract from : « Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service » by H. Irving Hancock

The mole has the faculty of scratching burrows, and the instinct to apply it.
Extract from : « The Foundations of the Origin of Species » by Charles Darwin

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