holm
Plural: holms
Noun
- A small island, especially in a river.
- Small island, islet.
- An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
- Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet, often in Norse-influenced place-names.
- Rich flat land near a river, prone to flooding.
- Common holly (Ilex aquifolium).
- A holm oak (Quercus ilex), a common evergreen oak of Europe.
Examples
- He found himself stranded on a holm of low-scoring letters, far from any bonus squares.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English holm, holme, from Old English holm (“wave, ocean, water, sea, islet”) and Old Norse holmr, holmi (“islet”), both from the Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“rising ground, hill, island”), from Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill”).
Cognate with Old Saxon holm, Middle Low German holm, German Holm, Middle Dutch holm, Danish holm, Swedish holme, Norwegian Bokmål holme, Icelandic hólmur.
Synonyms
bottomland, bottoms, floodplain, river-meadow
Scrabble Score: 9
holm: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordholm: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
holm: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary