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• holt
  holt

  noun

  a wood or grove.
• Holt
  Holt

  noun

  Harold Edward, 1908–67, Australian political leader: prime minister 1966–67.

holt

¹ American  

[hohlt] / hoʊlt /

noun

Archaic.

• holts
  plural

1. a wood or grove.

2. a wooded hill.

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Holt ² American  

[hohlt] / hoʊlt /

noun

1. Harold Edward, 1908–67, Australian political leader: prime minister 1966–67.

2. a town in central Michigan.

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Holt ¹ British  

/ həʊlt /

noun

1. Harold Edward. 1908–67, Australian statesman; prime minister (1966–67); believed drowned

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holt ² British  

/ həʊlt /

noun

1. archaic a wood or wooded hill

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holt ³ British  

/ həʊlt /

noun

1. the burrowed lair of an animal, esp an otter

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• holts
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of holt

before 900; Middle English holte, Old English holt; cognate with Dutch hout, Old Norse holt, German Holz wood; akin to Greek kládos twig ( see clado-), Old Irish caill wood

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Example Sentences

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In the zoo's otter holt two vulnerable Asian short-clawed otter pups were born last month to mother Midge and father Siyam.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

I don’t know what it was ’bout this critter that riled me so, ’cause when you holt it up next to other animals, there ain’t that much that’s spec-tac-a-lar ’bout it.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Then I'm pullin' away and shushin' her to be quiet so's not to wake her Ma, when she grabs holt to me and holds tight.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

I want to grab holt of something, so I hold his head.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

It was like I had holt of the end of a string that was in a big tangly knot.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

Ben Holt, for the prosecution, described Yaxley-Lennon as a "well-known public figure" with a "large, vocal online following" that now included more than two million followers on social media website X.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

In recent months he has appointed a new chief of staff, Ruth Younger, and James Holt, a veteran of the party's years in coalition government, as political director.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Zhang and the other person, identified in court records as PRC Official 2, allegedly met in June 2025 in China, when, Holt said, they discussed a “U.S. house.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

“People don’t understand that locating in Houston is like moving a film company to Hollywood,” said Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

West Virginia’s Governor Homer Holt saw the writing on the wall: the choice was to integrate or, like its neighbor to the east, dig in and contest the ruling.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

The wild forest; the clothed holts with green; With reins availed, and swift y-breathed horse, With cry of hounds, and merry blasts between, Where we did chase the fearful hart of force.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

That's the word for it; she let go all holts an' dropped, gatherin' him up in her arms.

From Mr. Scraggs by Henry Wallace Phillips

Yere's a sharp by the name of Colonel William Greene Sterett, who writes me as how he's sufferin' to let go all holts in the States an' start a paper in Wolfville.

From Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis

The copses that cover the slopes of the hills he calls "holts"; there are three or four within a short distance.

From The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

But to the hills and wild holts when they came From the rock's top the driven savage rose.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

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