doline
French, noun/dɔ.lin/
doline is spelled D-O-L-I-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doline is a French feminine noun meaning “sinkhole, shakehole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dépression de terrain karstique dont le fond argileux et fertile est constitué d’argiles de décalcification”.
What does doline mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesinkhole, shakehole
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dépression de terrain karstique dont le fond argileux et fertile est constitué d’argiles de décalcification.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of doline
- dolines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce doline?
- /dɔ.lin/
- \dɔ.lin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to doline
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is doline in French?
doline appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).