POLO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Polo mean? 

• POLO (noun)
  The noun POLO has 2 senses:

1. Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)

2. a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball

  Familiarity information: POLO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Marco Polo; Polo

Instance hypernyms:

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("polo" is a kind of...):

field game (an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions)

Domain member category:

stick (a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball)

chukka; chukker ((polo) one of six divisions into which a polo match is divided)

 Context examples 

You yacht against them, you hunt with them, you play polo, you match them in every game, your four-in-hand takes the prize at Olympia.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"I'd a little rather not be the polo player," said Tom pleasantly, "I'd rather look at all these famous people in—in oblivion."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

But evidently the sound of it pleased Gatsby for Tom remained "the polo player" for the rest of the evening.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

He took them ceremoniously from group to group: "Mrs. Buchanan . . . and Mr. Buchanan—" After an instant's hesitation he added: "the polo player."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

His family were enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—but now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)