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placeholders

placeholders is the plural of placeholder.

Meaning of placeholder

Noun

placeholder (plural placeholders)

  1. Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later.
    • This data is a placeholder, so you'll want to include the real numbers as soon as you have them.
  2. A non-editable caption initially displayed in a blank text box to indicate its function.

Questions about placeholders

What is placeholders the plural of?
Placeholders is the plural of placeholder.

Words near placeholders in the dictionary

  1. placefuls
  2. placegetter
  3. placegetters
  4. placegetting
  5. placeholder
  6. placeholders
  7. placeholding
  8. Placek
  9. placekick
  10. placekicked
  11. placekicker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: placeholders (page history and authors); placeholder (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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