hole Meaning & Definition

Synonyms of Hole

Antonyms of Hole

Hole in a Sentence

I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg.  I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.

There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.

I played 18 holes yesterday.  The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.

The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.

I have found a hole in your argument.

Just shut your hole!

His apartment is a hole!

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.

Jackson Hole

Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.

She completely holed the argument.

Woods holed a standard three foot putt

to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

car hole;  brain hole

Are you going out to get your hole tonight?

I ate a whole fish.

He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.

whole wheat; whole milk

The coat has a hole in it.

a bullet hole

His mother's death left a hole in his life.

some holes in your logic

a running back's ability to find holes in the defensive line

a hole in an apple

dug a large hole with a steam shovel

a rabbit hole

How could anyone live in such a hole?

threw him in the hole for two days

just beginning play on the third hole

won the hole by two strokes

… got the rebels out of a hole at the battle …

$10 million in the hole

raising money to get out of the hole

The ship was holed along the waterline by enemy fire.

hole a putt

The dogs holed the fox.

line up the pegs on section A with the holes in section B and press the two together

dig a hole big enough to plant the tree

Bill dug himself into a hole by promising to be in two places at the same time

when people see my room, they often ask, How can you live in this hole?

found a hole in the chain-link fence big enough to squeeze through

watched the snake slither into its hole

there's a huge hole in your logic

holed the target with a round of shots

The coat has a hole in it. / a bullet hole

$10 million in the hole / raising money to get out of the hole

hole a putt / The dogs holed the fox.

Word Forms & Grammar

hole

holes

holed

hol·ing

holing

in the hole

hole (plural holes)

hole (third-person singular simple present holes, present participle holing, simple past and past participle holed)

hole (comparative holer or more hole, superlative holest or most hole)

Words That Rhyme With Hole

Origin of Hole

Origin 1: Middle English hole, holle, going back to Old English hol "hollow place, cave, pit," noun derivative from neuter of hol "hollow, deeply concave, sunken," going back to Germanic *hula- (whence also Old Saxon & Old High German hol "hollow," Old Norse holr), probably going back to Indo-European *ḱuH-ló- (with assumed shortening of pretonic vowel), zero-grade derivative of a base *ḱeu̯H- "hollow," whence, with varying ablaut and suffixation, Greek koîlos, kóïlos "hollow, deep" (from *ḱou̯H-ilo-), Latin cavus "hollow, concave" (from *ḱou̯H-o-), Middle Irish cúa "hollow space, cavity," Middle Welsh ceu "hollow, empty" (both from *ḱou̯H-i̯o-?), Old Church Slavic sui "vain, empty" (from *ḱou̯H-i̯o-)

Origin 2: Middle English holen, going back to Old English holian, derivative of hol hole:1

Origin 3: Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.

Origin 4: Cognate with Dutch, Faroese, and Icelandic hol (“hole”), Danish hul (“hole”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norn hola (“hole”), Norwegian Bokmål hol (“depression, hole, cavern”), Swedish hål (“hole”), French houle (“swell of water”). Compare unrelated Finnish kolo (“hole”).

First Known Use

before 12th century

before 12th centuryt