Synonyms for holm

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hohm

Phonetic Transcription : hoʊm

Top 10 synonyms for holm

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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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