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holm
1[ hohm ]
noun
- a low, flat tract of land beside a river or stream.
- a small island, especially one in a river or lake.
holm
2[ hohm ]
noun
Holm
3[ hohlm ]
noun
- Han·ya [hahn-ye], 1895?–1992, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and teacher; born in Germany.
holm
2/ həʊm /
noun
- an island in a river, lake, or estuary
- low flat land near a river
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of holm1
Origin of holm2
Example Sentences
One month after the operation, Holm arrived in a ghostly Stanleyville posing as a State Department representative.
“Nobody sent us over there to be sure it was a nice guy,” Holm says.
Shortly after leaving Stanleyville, Richard Holm and a Cuban pilot went down in a fiery plane crash.
“Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.
“It is, I think, almost as bad today as the day I crashed,” Holm says of the Congo.
Holm to whippes lasshe; 'the holm used for making handles for whip-lashes.'
Holmgang so called in Norway because the two combatants retired alone to a holm or uninhabited islet to fight.
There was no foam around the Gild-Holm-'Ur; no wave beat against its granite sides.
At the same moment the wide waters round the Gild-Holm-'Ur and the vast gathering twilight closed upon them.
Such was Holm-Peel, as records inform us, till towards the end of the seventeenth century.
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