holder
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhəʊldə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhoʊɫdɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: hold‧er
Noun
holder (plural holders)
- A thing that holds.
- Put your umbrella in the umbrella holder.
- 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.
- (nautical) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
- (sports) The defending champion.
Derived terms
- accountholder
- agricultural holder
- baitholder
- beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
- billholder
- block holder
- bondholder
- bookholder
- book-holder
- boroughholder
- bottleholder
- boulder holder
- boxholder
- bus-holder
- candleholder
- candle holder
- cardholder
- chairholder
- cigarette holder
- coholder
- copyholder
- cryoholder
- cup holder
- cupholder
- debentureholder, debenture holder
- debtholder
- deedholder
- dwarf-holder
- farm holder
- farm holder
- fiefholder
- film badge holder
- footholder
- fundholder
- gasholder
- grudgeholder
- handholder
- harp holder
- haunch holder
- high-holder
- holder-forth
- holder-on
- holdership
- holder-up
- inkholder
- innholder
- jobholder
- keyholder
- key holder
- lampholder
- landholder
- leadholder
- leaseholder
- lienholder
- loanholder
- lotholder
- mapholder
- mopholder
- neckholder
- needle holder
- noteholder
- office holder
- officeholder
- office-holder
- over-the-shoulder boulder holder
- passholder
- patentholder
- pencil holder
- penholder
- permitholder
- pewholder
- placeholder
- place holder
- planholder
- plateholder
- plotholder
- plume-holder
- plume holder
- policyholder
- policy holder
- postholder
- potholder
- pot holder
- powerholder
- receiptholder
- recordholder
- record-holder
- rein holder
- rightholder
- rightsholder
- runholder
- rush holder
- seatholder
- shareholder
- shipholder
- sightholder
- signholder
- siteholder
- slaveholder
- sleeve-holder
- sleeve holder
- sleeveholder
- stakeholder
- stallholder
- stockholder
- stubbie holder
- stubby holder
- tagholder
- ticket-holder
- titleholder
- toolholder
- typeholder
- type holder
- unitholder
- wardholder
- warrantholder
- wharfholder
Descendants
- → Punjabi: ਹੌਲਡਰ (haulḍar)
Translations
a thing that holds
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a person who possesses something
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(sports) defending champion
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Anagrams
Danish
Etymology 1
From holde (“to hold”) + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
holder c (singular definite holderen, plural indefinite holdere)
Declension
Declension of holder
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
holder
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adjective
holder
- comparative degree of hold
- inflection of hold:
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
holder m (definite singular holderen, indefinite plural holdere, definite plural holderne)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
holder
References
- “holder” in The Bokmål Dictionary.