Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Fwd: pol: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dictionary.com <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: 2013/11/5
Subject: pol: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
To: "Hector William G." <hectorpinillos@gmail.com>

Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 5, 2013

pol \pol\, noun:

a politician, especially one experienced in making political deals, exchanging political favors, etc.

She said that Sexton, whose grandfather was the city's tax commissioner, ran the school like "the Brooklyn pol he was"…
-- Rachel Aviv, "The Imperial Presidency," The New Yorker, Sept. 9, 2013

That was one of his talents, that he didn't sound like a pol.
-- Jay McInerney, How It Ended, 2009

Pol arose in early 1900s in America as a shortening of politician.

Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word

Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help

Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom?

Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges
Check out the Quote of the Day ››

7 Timeless Epistolary Novels

The term epistolary, meaning "consisting of letters," entered English in the 1600s from the Greek term meaning "message" or "letter." An epistolary novel is a story told exclusively through fictionalized letters, emails, newspaper articles, and other primary sources. The form experienced a popularity surge in the mid-1700s, and has since structured some of the most...
Read more ››

Dictionary.com Word of the Day	You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com
Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day	To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com
©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607	Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online
	Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!