holm

¹

[ hohm ]

noun

, British Dialect.

1. a low, flat tract of land beside a river or stream.
2. a small island, especially one in a river or lake.

holm

²

[ hohm ]

noun

1. holm oak.

Holm

³

[ hohlm ]

noun

1. Han·ya [hahn-ye], 1895?–1992, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and teacher; born in Germany.

holm

¹

/ həʊm /

noun

1. short for holm oak
2. a dialect word for holly

holm

²

/ həʊm /

noun

1. an island in a river, lake, or estuary
2. low flat land near a river

Word History and Origins

Origin of holm¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English holm; cognate with Old Norse holm islet, Danish holm, Swedish holme a small island, German Holm hill, island, Latin columen, culmen summit; hill

Origin of holm²

1350–1400; Middle English, by dissimilation from holn, Old English holen holly

Word History and Origins

Origin of holm¹

C14: variant of obsolete holin, from Old English holegn holly

Origin of holm²

Old English holm sea, island; related to Old Saxon holm hill, Old Norse holmr island, Latin culmen tip

Example Sentences

One month after the operation, Holm arrived in a ghostly Stanleyville posing as a State Department representative.

From The Daily Beast

“Nobody sent us over there to be sure it was a nice guy,” Holm says.

From The Daily Beast

Shortly after leaving Stanleyville, Richard Holm and a Cuban pilot went down in a fiery plane crash.

From The Daily Beast

“Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.

From The Daily Beast

“It is, I think, almost as bad today as the day I crashed,” Holm says of the Congo.

From The Daily Beast

Holm to whippes lasshe; 'the holm used for making handles for whip-lashes.'

From Project Gutenberg

Holmgang so called in Norway because the two combatants retired alone to a holm or uninhabited islet to fight.

From Project Gutenberg

There was no foam around the Gild-Holm-'Ur; no wave beat against its granite sides.

From Project Gutenberg

At the same moment the wide waters round the Gild-Holm-'Ur and the vast gathering twilight closed upon them.

From Project Gutenberg

Such was Holm-Peel, as records inform us, till towards the end of the seventeenth century.

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Related Words

• bog
• marshland
• morass
• mud
• quagmire