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Cool
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cool COOL
English
Proper noun
s
en.
en McCool; en Irish a, anglicized form of McCool.
en town co/El Dorado County s/California c/US ; named for preacher Aaron Cool.
en Erin Heft Massive PG&E power outage leaves approximately 61,000 customers in the dark across Placer County w:KCRA https://www.kcra.com/article/massive-pge-power-outage-leaves-approximately-61000-customers-in-the-dark-across-placer-county/71646018 2026-06-20 The outage area continues to expand, stretching from Granite Bay, Newcastle, Loomis, and Auburn across Folsom Lake to Cool, and north through Colfax into Lake of the Pines. https://web.archive.org/web/20260620174918/https://www.kcra.com/article/massive-pge-power-outage-leaves-approximately-61000-customers-in-the-dark-across-placer-county/71646018
en town co/Parker County s/Texas c/US.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Cool is the 6801st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4958 individuals. Cool is most common among White (90.56%) individuals.
See also
en Cools O'Cool McCool
Anagrams
en cloo Colo Colo. colo colo- loco
Dutch
Etymology 1
A diminutive of nl Nicolaas.
Proper noun
m
nl archaic nl male
Derived terms
nl Cools
Etymology 2
First attested as coele in 1281-1284. Potentially derived from nl dum cole cabbage, Brassica oleracea.
Pronunciation
nl Cool
nl kool
Proper noun
n
nl neighbourhood/and/former municipality bor/Centrum city/Rotterdam p/South Holland c/Netherlands
References
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