Poll

Quick meaning: Poll is a noun meaning A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.

Meaning

A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.

More Meanings

1. A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
2. A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
3. The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
4. (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
5. (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
6. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
7. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

Example Sentences

The polls close at 8 p.m.

We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands.

The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.

All soldiers quartered in place are to remove […] and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.

Word Forms

• polls
• pol
• pole
• polling
• polled

Synonyms for poll

Depending on context, synonyms include survey, vote, election, scalp, crown, canvas.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include canvass, canvas, crown, pate, pollard, questionnaire.

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