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Plural of hold

regular plural

The plural of hold is holds.

Forms of hold

Singularhold /həʊld/
Pluralholds /həʊldz/
Countablecountable

Holds in a sentence

  • This package holds six bottles.
  • The proposition holds.
  • The metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas holds that all real beings have both essence and existence.From the entry metaphysics
  • This theory still holds good even if much higher temperatures are assumed.From the entry good
  • Bride of Frankenstein is an old film, but it holds up.From the entry hold up

Meaning of hold

  1. verb To grasp or grip.
  2. verb To contain or store.
  3. verb To have and keep possession of something.

Full definition of hold

Questions about the plural of hold

What is the plural of hold?
The plural of hold is holds.
Is hold countable?
Hold is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hold (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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