hole – English noun declension

English noun forms of hole

Noun: hole
Singularhole
Pluralholes

Sample Sentences

  • I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg.  I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
  • To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks. [c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:]
  • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.
  • The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 12:9:]
  • […]her palfrey’s footfall shot
  • Light horrors thro’ her pulses: the blind walls
  • Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead
  • Fantastic gables, crowding, stared:[…] [1840, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva:]
  • I played 18 holes yesterday.  The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
  • The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
  • I have found a hole in your argument.
  • But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back [2011, Fun, “We Are Young”:]
  • Just shut your hole!
  • In late December a Washington State prisoner was involved in a scuffle with a guard who was trying to take him into the hole. [1988 April 2, Ed Mead, “AIDS hysteria sweeps prison guards' union”, in Gay Community News, page 9:]
  • Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole. [2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven, Locked Up but Not Locked Down:]
  • His apartment is a hole!
  • I have often heard people say, "One can't live upon a view," and I have heard some of the most beautiful places called "awful holes," simply because of the monotonous lives led in them. [1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 109:]
  • If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
  • "Don't you see the hole it has put me into? […] Of course it was too late to have any alteration printed on the first night and now Miss Roscastle is the draw of the piece. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
  • We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.
  • Jackson Hole

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *hulaz
3. Proto-Germanic *hulą
4. Proto-West Germanic *hol
5. Old English hol
6. Middle English hole
7. English hole
8. Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.
9. Cognate with Dutch, Faroese, and Icelandic hol (“hole”), Danish hul (“hole”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norn hola (“hole”), Norwegian Bokmål hol (“depression, hole, cavern”), Swedish hål (“hole”), French houle (“swell of water”). Compare unrelated Finnish kolo (“hole”). See: Middle English Nouns 'hole', Middle English Nouns 'hole', Old English Nouns 'hol', Danish Nouns 'hul', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'hol', Swedish Nouns 'hål', French Nouns 'houle'.

Verbs referencing "hole"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hol, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns hull, Swedish Nouns arsle, Danish Nouns hul, English Nouns onahole, Swedish Nouns arsel.