Jol

Quick meaning: Jol is a noun meaning (South Africa, slang) A party.

Meaning

(South Africa, slang) A party.

More Meanings

1. (South Africa, slang) To party.
2. (UK) A barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula.

Example Sentences

—Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top.

I had a jol observing the Friday mix at the Radisson RED’s Roof Bar and the engagement between the patrons, especially between the older men and younger women.

An extensive, barren desert plateau, around 1,000-1,200 m in elevation, the jol, extends eastwards from Shabwa, dropping away northwards to the sands of the Rub al Khali.

The old crystalline hills of the ‘Asir and Yemen, which to the west drop in a series of steps to the Tihamah or coastal plain, are to the east overlain by near horizontal strata of sedimentary rocks of which the oldest are probably the sandstones forming the Kaukab plateau and the newest, excluding recent deposits, are the Eocene limestones of the jol, the succession seeming more complete in the north.

Word Forms

• jols
• jolling
• jolled

Synonyms for jol

Depending on context, synonyms include desert, plateau, flatland.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include asw, afternoon, night, evening, outline, joll.

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