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candle holder

candle holder is the alternative form of candleholder.

Meaning of candleholder

Noun

candleholder (plural candleholders)

  1. A device for holding one or more lit candles
    • When officers arrived, the man, whose name was not released, confronted them with a metal candleholder, officials said.2007 September 5, “Brooklyn: Man Killed in Fall”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    timmynoggy
  2. (historical) A person who holds a candle to assist another person who is working in dim light.
  3. (broadly, dated) One who renders another slight assistance, or humours them.

Forms of candle holder

pluralcandle holders

Questions about candle holder

What is candle holder the alternative form of?
Candle holder is the alternative form of candleholder.

Words near candle holder in the dictionary

  1. candle chart
  2. candle coal
  3. candle coals
  4. candle dance
  5. candle dances
  6. candle holder
  7. candle holders
  8. candle in the wind
  9. candle light
  10. candle magick
  11. candle power

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Adapted from Wiktionary: candle holder (page history and authors); candleholder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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