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Synonyms for holm

Grammar : Noun
Spell : hohm
Phonetic Transcription : hoÊŠm

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Définition of holm

Origin :
  • late Old English, from Old Norse holmr "small island, especially in a bay or river," also "meadow by a shore," or cognate Old Danish hulm "low lying land," from Proto-Germanic *hul-maz, from PIE root *kel- "to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill" (see hill). Obsolete, but preserved in place names. Cognate Old English holm (only attested in poetic language) meant "sea, ocean, wave."
  • As in swamp : noun wet land covered with vegetation
  • As in marshland : noun swamp
  • As in muskeg : noun swamp
  • As in quag : noun swamp
  • As in slough : noun swamp
  • As in swampland : noun swamp
Example sentences :
  • The holm oak, ilex, is so called from its holly-like leaves.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
  • And it was in July that Holm Oaks, as a gathering-place of the elect, was at its best.
  • Extract from : « The Island Pharisees » by John Galsworthy
  • He rode away with fifteen men; Bersi also rode to the holm with as many.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald » by Unknown
  • Taking an Icelander, by the name of Holm, as his guide, he entered Lapland.
  • Extract from : « Louis Philippe » by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
  • Have you never considered what a chance for building there's in that holm of yours?
  • Extract from : « The House with the Green Shutters » by George Douglas Brown
  • Some time elapsed, and again Ibsen received a postal packet from Holm.
  • Extract from : « Hedda Gabler » by Henrik Ibsen
  • One source of the peculiar loveliness of such a holm is that all the ways are green.
  • Extract from : « The New Forest » by Elizabeth Godfrey
  • To this inner plate or pro-mesosternite Holm gives the name of endostoma.
  • Extract from : « The Origin of Vertebrates » by Walter Holbrook Gaskell
  • Holm makes a note to the same effect in his account of the east coast.
  • Extract from : « Eskimo Life » by Fridtjof Nansen
  • Holm also relates a case in which a man received a sound thrashing from his wife.
  • Extract from : « Eskimo Life » by Fridtjof Nansen
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