volge

English

Etymology

From Latin vulgus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /voʊlɡ/

Noun

volge pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete) The common people; the crowd, the mob.
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Prince Edwards Performance in Palestine: He is Dangerously Wounded; yet Recovereth, and Returneth Home Safe”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: [] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], OCLC 913016526, book IV, page 219:
      [Y]ea, he would profer to fight with any mean perſon, if cried up by the volge for a tall man: this daring being a generall fault in great ſpirits, and a great fault in a Generall, who ſtaketh a pearl againſt a piece of glaſſe.

See also

Further reading

  • volge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams


Dutch

Verb

volge

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of volgen

Anagrams


Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔl.d͡ʒe/
  • Rhymes: -ɔldʒe
  • Hyphenation: vòl‧ge

Verb

volge

  1. third-person singular present indicative of volgere

Latin

Noun

volge

  1. vocative singular of volgus

References

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