holder

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See also: Holder and Hölder

English

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Etymology

From hold +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

holder (plural holders)

  1. A thing that holds.
    Put your umbrella in the umbrella holder.
  2. A person who temporarily or permanently possesses something.
    He's been an account holder with us since 2004.
    In 2012, there were 28 living holders of the Victoria Cross or the George Cross.
    • 1881, George Saintsbury, “Dryden”, in English Men of Letters:
      Davenant, the last holder of the laureateship, had died two years previously, and Howell, the well known author of the Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, and the late holder of the historiographership, four years before.
    • 1892 July, “Villainage in England”, in The English Historical Review, volume VII, number XXVII, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.; New York, N.Y.: , page 460:
      How many of these gafolgelders by contract were to be found on Saxon manors, whether on the lord’s demesne or holding virgates in the open fields, libere tenentes or free holders of villain holdings, as I have elsewhere stated we cannot tell, but if we may take the experience of the interval between the Domesday survey and the hundred rolls as any guide to the natural multiplication of libere tenentes on the lord’s demesne, the class may have become numerous on many, and perhaps mostly on royal manors, without giving ground, I think, for any inference in favour of the original freedom of the Saxon village community.
    • 1996, United States. Internal Revenue Service, Internal Revenue Bulletin‎, page 47:
      A request for a nonreviewable ruling must be submitted by an issuer or holder.
  3. (nautical) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
  4. (sports) The defending champion.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Punjabi: ਹੌਲਡਰ (haulḍar)

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Danish

Etymology 1

From holde (“to hold”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

holder c (singular definite holderen, plural indefinite holdere)

  1. holder
Declension
Declension of holder
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative holder holderen holdere holderne
genitive holders holderens holderes holdernes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

holder

  1. present tense of holde

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

holder

  1. comparative degree of hold
  2. inflection of hold:
    1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
    2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
    3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From holde +‎ -er.

Noun

holder m (definite singular holderen, indefinite plural holdere, definite plural holderne)

  1. holder
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

holder

  1. present tense of holde

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