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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

He run through the cars and grab holt of me before my head tole my feet to run.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

“There’s s’posed to be a blacksmith what can get them chains off you not far from here. Jus’ holt up on doing anything rough till we get to him.

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

The cap’n grabbed holt of the man’s forearm.

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

He had the look ’bout him of one ’em kittens whose mother had bit holt of the scruff of its neck and was walking ’round with it swaying from one side to the ’nother.

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

Holt said that in August that year, Dirnhuber received a number of messages from Robinson and that eventually the journalist had to move house.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Holt said the trial was about Yaxley-Lennon's reaction to the articles, and accused him of using "bully-boy tactics" to "intimidate" the journalists.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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

For a general-store clerk, Uncle Holt read more than any human being I knew.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Educatin' public sentiment up to lovin' me, and urgin' me not to be so offish, and to obleege 'em by takin' a office—them is my 2 strong holts.

From Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley

For we must go unhidden soon, where the marshland lay open and bare down to the river, the alder and willow holts ceasing when their roots felt the salt water of the spring tides.

From A Thane of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

Seems like they let go all holts as soon as the dark comes.

From The Night Horseman by Max Brand

These flute-notes and the Fairy song Took the dim holts with many a qualm, And eke their silver bridles rung A far-off psalm.

From Blooms of the Berry by Madison J. Cawein

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

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