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# ola

fragment or name — not a common English word

«ola» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Not an English word on its own. It may be a piece of a longer word, as in "cola", "granola" or "Coca-Cola". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#m1)
2. It may be a name, like the girl's name Ola, or the Spanish greeting "hola" (hello) written without the h. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#m2)
3. "Ola" is also the name of a taxi company in India and of a brand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#m3)

### In the lessons

You will not usually meet "ola" alone in lessons. If you see it in a word list, it probably came from splitting a word such as "cola" or "granola", or from a name. In Spanish, "hola" means "hello" (the h is silent), and "ola" means "wave" (of the sea).

### Examples

- "Hola!" means "hello" in Spanish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x1)
- My friend Ola comes from Poland. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x2)
- Granola ends with the letters "ola". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x3)
- The word "cola" ends in "ola". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x4)
- In Spanish, "ola" means a wave in the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x5)
- Ola waved to us from the other side of the playground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x6)

### Note

Treat it as a fragment or a name, not an English word. If it begins a sentence or is a person's name, write it with a capital: Ola. The Spanish greeting is spelt "hola", with a silent h.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ola» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ola» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ola.html) on Mova free.