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tholtans

tholtans is the plural of tholtan.

Meaning of tholtan

Noun

tholtan (plural tholtans)

  1. (chiefly Isle of Man) 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

Questions about tholtans

What is tholtans the plural of?
Tholtans is the plural of tholtan.

Words near tholtans in the dictionary

  1. tholoi
  2. tholos
  3. tholsel
  4. tholsels
  5. tholtan
  6. tholtans
  7. tholthan
  8. tholthans
  9. tholus
  10. Thom
  11. Thomaean

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