"Hole" meaning in English

See Hole in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Holes [plural]
Etymology: Various origins: * English topographic surname for someone who lived by a depression, from Old English holh (“hole”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulwī, from Proto-Germanic *hulwiją. * Borrowed from Norwegian Hole, a habitational surname from Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”). * Shortened form of Dutch van Hole, a habitational surname from hol (“hole, depression, cavity”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ang|holh||hole}} Old English holh (“hole”), {{der|en|gmw-pro|*hulwī}} Proto-West Germanic *hulwī, {{der|en|gem-pro|*hulwiją}} Proto-Germanic *hulwiją, {{bor|en|no|Hole}} Norwegian Hole, {{der|en|non|hóll||round hill, mound}} Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”), {{der|en|nl|van Hole}} Dutch van Hole Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Hole (plural Holes)
  1. A surname.

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "holh",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hole"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English holh (“hole”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*hulwī"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hulwī",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*hulwiją"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hulwiją",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "no",
        "3": "Hole"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian Hole",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "hóll",
        "4": "",
        "5": "round hill, mound"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nl",
        "3": "van Hole"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch van Hole",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Various origins:\n* English topographic surname for someone who lived by a depression, from Old English holh (“hole”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulwī, from Proto-Germanic *hulwiją.\n* Borrowed from Norwegian Hole, a habitational surname from Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”).\n* Shortened form of Dutch van Hole, a habitational surname from hol (“hole, depression, cavity”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Holes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Hole (plural Holes)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "id": "en-Hole-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hole"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "holh",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hole"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English holh (“hole”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*hulwī"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hulwī",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*hulwiją"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hulwiją",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "no",
        "3": "Hole"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian Hole",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "hóll",
        "4": "",
        "5": "round hill, mound"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nl",
        "3": "van Hole"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch van Hole",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Various origins:\n* English topographic surname for someone who lived by a depression, from Old English holh (“hole”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulwī, from Proto-Germanic *hulwiją.\n* Borrowed from Norwegian Hole, a habitational surname from Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”).\n* Shortened form of Dutch van Hole, a habitational surname from hol (“hole, depression, cavity”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Holes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Hole (plural Holes)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English surnames",
        "English surnames from Dutch",
        "English surnames from Norwegian",
        "English surnames from Old English",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hole"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Hole meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.