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holm

UK/həʊm/US/hoʊm/

holm noun: small island, islet.

Noun (1)

holm (plural holms)

  1. Small island, islet.
  2. An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
  3. (Orkney, Scotland, dialectal, chiefly West Yorkshire(?)) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet, often in Norse-influenced place-names.
  4. Rich flat land near a river, prone to flooding.
    • A Brownie once lived with Maxwell, Laird of Dalswinton, and was particularly attached to the Laird's daughter, the comeliest lass in all the holms of Nithsdale.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 170
    Synonyms:
    floodplain, bottomland, bottoms, river-meadow

Noun (2)

holm (plural holms)

  1. (obsolete outside UK dialects) Common holly (Ilex aquifolium).
    • The fruitfull Oliue, and the Platane round, / The caruer Holme, the Maple, ſeeldom inward ſound.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 5
  2. A holm oak (Quercus ilex), a common evergreen oak of Europe.

Proper noun capitalized: Holm

Holm

  1. A surname.

holm meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

holm in Tamil

ஆற்றிடைத் தீவு

holm in Urdu

چھوٹا جزیرہ

holm in Kannada

ಚಿಕ್ಕ ದ್ವೀಪ, ಕಿರು ನಡುಗಡ್ಡೆ, ಕರೆಬಯಲು, ದಡದ ಜಮೀನು, ತೀರದ ಜಮೀನು, ಚಪ್ಪಟೆ ಭೂಮಿ

Synonyms of holm

Forms of holm

pluralholms
alternative form (obsolete)holme

Plural of holm: holms

Origin of holm

From Middle English holm, holme, from Old English holm (“wave, ocean, water, sea, islet”) and Old Norse holmr, holmi (“islet”), both from the Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“rising ground, hill, island”), from Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill”). Cognate with Old Saxon holm, Middle Low German holm, German Holm, Middle Dutch holm, Danish holm, Swedish holme, Norwegian Bokmål holme, Icelandic hólmur.

From Middle English holm, holme, alteration of Middle English holin (“holly”). Doublet of hollin and holly.

* As an English, Scottish, German (by way of Low German holm), Scandinavian (Norway, Sweden, and Denmark) /North Germanic surname (from Old Norse holmr), from holm (“islet”), all from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz. * Also as an English surname, from holm (“holly”). Compare Hollis.

Words formed from holm

Phrases with holm

Words that rhyme with holm

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Questions about holm

What does holm mean?
Holm means small island, islet.
What is holm in Tamil?
Holm in Tamil is ஆற்றிடைத் தீவு. See Holm meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is holm?
Holm can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce holm?
Holm is pronounced /həʊm/ (UK).
What is the plural of holm?
The plural of holm is holms.

Words near holm in the dictionary

  1. Hollywoodizes
  2. Hollywoodizing
  3. Hollywoodland
  4. Hollywoods
  5. Hollywoody
  6. holm
  7. holm oak
  8. holm oaks
  9. holm-oak
  10. holm-oaks
  11. Holman

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: holm (page history and authors); Holm (page history and authors); holm (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); holm (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); holm (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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