holm

• (UK) IPA^(key): /həʊm/, /həʊlm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hoʊm/, /hoʊlm/
• Rhymes: -əʊm
• Homophone: home

From Middle English holm, holme, from Old English holm (“wave, ocean, water, sea, islet”) and Old Norse holmr, holmi (“islet”), both from the Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“rising ground, hill, island”), from Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill”).

Cognate with Old Saxon holm, Middle Low German holm, German Holm, Middle Dutch holm, Danish holm, Swedish holme, Norwegian Bokmål holme, Icelandic hólmur.

• holme (obsolete)

holm (plural holms)

1. Small island, islet.
2. An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
3. (dialect, chiefly West Yorkshire(?), Scotland, Orkney) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names.
4. Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.

From Middle English holm, holme, alteration of Middle English holin (“holly”). Doublet of hollin and holly.

holm (plural holms)

2. (obsolete outside dialects) The holly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 5:

     The fruitfull Oliue, and the Platane round, / The caruer Holme, the Maple, ſeeldom inward ſound.

3. A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.

• holming
• holm oak
• sea holm

• LMHO, Mohl

From Old Norse holmr, from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz.

holm c (singular definite holmen, plural indefinite holme)

1. a small island

From Middle Dutch holm, from Old Dutch holm, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *holm (“island”), from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“small island, hill, mound”), from Pre-Germanic *kl̥Hmos, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“hill”).

• Rhymes: -ɔlm

holm m (plural holmen, diminutive holmpje n)

1. a small island; an islet

From Proto-West Germanic *holm (“island”), though the meaning was influenced by Old Norse holmr.

Cognate with Old Saxon holm (German Holm), Old Dutch holm (Dutch holm); also Latin culmen (“peak”); compare culminate.

• IPA^(key): /xolm/, [hoɫm]

holm m (nominative plural holmas)

1. (poetic) ocean, sea, waters
   • Ða wæs heofonweardes gast ofer holm boren.

     The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: holm, holme
  • English: holm
  • Scots: holm, houm

Learned borrowing from New Latin holmium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔlm/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔlm
• Syllabification: holm

holm m inan

1. holmium (chemical element, Ho, atomic number 67)

• holm in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Russian холм (xolm).

holm n (plural holmuri)

1. (Moldavia (region)) hill

• holm in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Proto-Slavic *xъlmъ.

• IPA^(key): /xòːlm/, /xóːlm/

họ̄lm m inan

1. hill

• “holm”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (see holme). Cognate with Old Norse holmr, Icelandic hólmur, Old Church Slavonic хлъмъ (xlŭmŭ).

• IPA^(key): /hɔlˈmɛ/

holm c

1. obsolete form of holme

• Stockholm
• Holm
• Holmberg
• Lindholm

• holm in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)