hold good
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English
Etymology
From hold (“to maintain in being or action; to continue; to sustain”) + good.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhəʊld ˈɡʊd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌhoʊld ˈɡʊd/
- Rhymes: -ʊd
Verb
hold good (third-person singular simple present holds good, present participle holding good, simple past and past participle held good) (intransitive)
- To continue being true or valid; to hold true.
- Synonym: hold
- That explanation does not hold good in this matter.
- The law holds not good for them.
- To remain effective, fast, or secure.
- 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 2, stanza IV, pages 50–51:
- She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! / She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood! / They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years, / Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, / Cold, on the stroke of midnight, / The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
Translations
to remain effective, fast, or secure
Further reading
- “to hold good, to hold true” under “hold, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021. - “hold true (also hold good), phrase”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
