tholtan
/toʊltən/
tholtan noun: an abandoned house; the ruin of a building which was once a home.
Noun
tholtan (plural tholtans)
- An abandoned house; the ruin of a building which was once a home.
- You can be sitting in a tholtan down in back Castle Street in Peel in a bit of property that is not fit to live in, but it will still be rated at about £55. So the whole system, really, is wrong.1981, The Times Reports of Debates in the Manx Legislature, volume 98, page T-905
- Throughout the Isle, abandoned tholtans, devoid of their thatched roofs and whitewash, are silent reminders of the people who once were sheltered near the warmth of their hearths and sang in their own Celtic tongue.1995 July–August, Ancestry Magazine, volume 13, number 4
Forms of tholtan
| plural | tholtans |
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Origin of tholtan
From Manx tholtan. Compare tolltach (“full of holes”).
Questions about tholtan
- What does tholtan mean?
- Tholtan means an abandoned house; the ruin of a building which was once a home.
- What part of speech is tholtan?
- Tholtan is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tholtan?
- Tholtan is pronounced /toʊltən/.
- What is the plural of tholtan?
- The plural of tholtan is tholtans.
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