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[ hohm ] SHOW IPA
/ hoʊm / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun British Dialect . a low, flat tract of land beside a river or stream.
a small island, especially one in a river or lake.
Origin of holm 1 before 1000; Middle English; Old English holm; cognate with Old Norse holm islet, Danish holm, Swedish holme a small island, German Holm hill, island, Latin columen, culmen summit; see hill
Words nearby holm holly oak, Hollywood, Hollywood bed, Hollywoodian, Hollywoodish, holm , Holman, Holman Hunt, Holmes, Holmes-Adie syndrome, Holmes light
Definition for holm (2 of 3) [ hohm ] SHOW IPA
/ hoʊm / PHONETIC RESPELLING
Origin of holm 2 1350–1400; Middle English, by dissimilation from holn, Old English holen holly
Definition for holm (3 of 3) [ hohlm ] SHOW IPA
/ hoʊlm / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun Han·ya [hahn-ye], /ˌhɑn yɛ/, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and teacher; born in Germany. Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for holm One month after the operation, Holm arrived in a ghostly Stanleyville posing as a State Department representative.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic| November 23, 2014| DAILY BEAST
“Nobody sent us over there to be sure it was a nice guy,” Holm says.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic| November 23, 2014| DAILY BEAST
“Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic| November 23, 2014| DAILY BEAST
“It is, I think, almost as bad today as the day I crashed,” Holm says of the Congo.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic| November 23, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Holm is claiming responsibility, saying he did it as an "experiment with the flaw" in Twitter.
The Race to Save Twitter | Brian Ries| September 21, 2010| DAILY BEAST
Holm walked back to the office with his hat at a more than usually rakish angle, as was his way when in high spirits.
Dry Fish and Wet | Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
Beneath a sunny hill, a grove was standing, thick set with holm oaks; and in its branches lurked full many a bird.
The Amores, or Amours | Ovid
Vindt judged that Holm was now in the best of tempers, and proposed to utilise the opportunity.
Dry Fish and Wet | Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
And it was Holm 's great ambition to get the better of him and make the banker burn his fingers in a way he should remember.
Dry Fish and Wet | Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
Not so handsome, true, but of a gentler type, thought Holm to himself as he looked at the fresh young face.
Dry Fish and Wet | Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
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British Dictionary definitions for holm (1 of 2) noun dialect , mainly Northwest English an island in a river, lake, or estuary
low flat land near a river
Word Origin for holm Old English holm sea, island; related to Old Saxon holm hill, Old Norse holmr island, Latin culmen tip
British Dictionary definitions for holm (2 of 2) noun short for holm oak
mainly British a dialect word for holly
Word Origin for holm C14: variant of obsolete holin, from Old English holegn holly
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Words related to holm mud, marshland, quagmire, morass, bog, glade, fen, mire, moor, marsh, slough, swampland, quag, swale, bottoms, polder, wetland, muskeg, everglade, peat bog