hole

CEFRA1

/həʊl/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An empty space or opening in something solid.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.

Examples

  • He dug a deep hole in the garden.

  • There is a big hole in your stocking.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [hoɫ]
  • [hɔʊɫ]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. In games., A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particula...

  2. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.

  3. In games.

More examples

In context

  • You burnt a hole in my coat with your cigarette.

  • I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.

  • I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).