English

Proper noun

Holt

1. An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.
2. A market town in Norfolk, England.

Anagrams

• loth

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą. More at holt.

Noun

Holt n

1. wood

Derived terms

• holten

English

Alternative forms

• hoult

Noun

holt ‎(plural holts)

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book X, ii:

     As when a savage wolf, chas'd from the fold, / To hide his head runs to some holt or wood.

   • Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

     She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park.

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXI, line 5

     [the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.

2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

References

• holt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• holt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• loth

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔlt

Verb

holt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of hollen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of hollen

German

Verb

holt

1. Third-person singular present of holen.
2. Second-person plural present of holen.
3. Imperative plural of holen.

Hungarian

Etymology

Old past participle of the verb hal ‎(“to die”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈholt]

Adjective

holt (comparative holtabb, superlative legholtabb)

1. dead

   Holt lelkek‎ ― Dead Souls (a novel by Nikolai Gogol)

Declension

Derived terms

• holtan

(Compound words):

• félholt
• holtrészeg
• Holt-tenger
• holttest
• holtverseny

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔl̥t

  Homophones: hollt

Noun

holt n ‎(genitive singular holts, nominative plural holt)

1. hillock
   • Á Sprengisandi (“On Sprengisandur”) by Grímur Thomsen

     Þey þey! þey þey! þaut í holti tófa,

     þurran vill hún blóði væta góm,

     eða líka einhver var að hóa

     undarlega digrum karlaróm;

     útilegumenn í Ódáðahraun

     eru kannske að smala fé á laun.

     Hush, hush, hush, hush,

     a vixen dashed in the hillock,

     wanting to quench his thirst with blood.

     Or - is it someone calling,

     strangely, with a harsh voice?

     Outlawed men, in the vast waste land

     are secretly guarding their stolen sheep.

2. (antiquated) wood

Declension

Derived terms

• Breiðholt
• Laxárholt

Middle English

Noun

holt

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.

   Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes... -- Chaucer, Gen. Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll. 5-6

Old Dutch

Noun

holt n

1. wood (the material)
2. tree
3. a wood, a forest

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

Noun

holt n

1. wood