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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

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

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

Oh, yeah, them Tanners might have holt a me and Chester now, but see if we do one minute of work again.

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

It didn’t take but a second for me to see that what was grabbing holt of me was what Ma use to call the green-eye monster.

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

They’s too hard tuh git holt of right now.”

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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

“Canada’s housing market remains on an upswing,” said Derek Holt, head of capital markets economics at Bank of Nova Scotia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Derek Holt, chief economist at Scotiabank, says he senses there is a “center within the committee that hasn’t quite bought the need to move.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

“For now, either Trump extends the deadline, or an interim agreement is struck,” Holt said in a note.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

Holt said he did not realise he needed permission to redecorate the Grade II-listed structure.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Uncle Holt was settled into the hickory rocker, a stack of newspapers on his lap.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

But Ann, who had held in her temper as she governed a half-wild pony on the range, until this point, suddenly "let go all holts," as Bill Hicks would have expressed it.

From Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box by Alice B. Emerson

Have ye any Piggs, Calves, or Colts, Have ye any Lambs in your holts To cut for the Stone, Here comes a cunning one.

From Beggars Bush From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10) by Francis Beaumont

Von day you got de yolk und vhite,     De next day only shells; Von day dey holts a council,     Und de next day - 'someding else!'

From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland

“Pilot.”—A man may hav a grate deal ov edukashun, and not be verry wize, after awl; jist az he may hav a heap ov strength, and not know the best holts.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw