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mould.

Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/məʊld/Received-Pronunciation/moʊld/Canada, General-American[moːɫd]Canada, General-American/məʉld/Australia
  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Via Middle English molde, moulde (“mould, cast”) and Old French modle, from Latin modulus.

verb/məʊld/Received-Pronunciation/moʊld/Canada, General-American[moːɫd]Canada, General-American/məʉld/Australia
  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.

Where this word comes from

Via Middle English molde, moulde (“mould, cast”) and Old French modle, from Latin modulus.

noun/məʊld/Received-Pronunciation/moʊld/Canada, General-American[moːɫd]Canada, General-American/məʉld/Australia
  1. Commonwealth spelling of mold (“growth of tiny fungi”).

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, mawlen (“to grow mouldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *muglōną, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz (“soft substance”) (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.

verb/məʊld/Received-Pronunciation/moʊld/Canada, General-American[moːɫd]Canada, General-American/məʉld/Australia
  1. Commonwealth spelling of mold (“to cause to become mouldy”).

Where this word comes from

From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, mawlen (“to grow mouldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *muglōną, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz (“soft substance”) (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.

noun/məʊld/Received-Pronunciation/moʊld/Canada, General-American[moːɫd]Canada, General-American/məʉld/Australia
  1. Commonwealth spelling of mold (“loose soil”).

Where this word comes from

From Old English molde. Cognate with Old High German molta, Old Norse mold and Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda).

noun/məʊld/Received-Pronunciation/moʊld/Canada, General-American[moːɫd]Canada, General-American/məʉld/Australia
  1. Commonwealth spelling of mold (“top of the head”).

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