holder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *haldaną
Proto-West Germanic *haldan
Old English healdan
Middle English holden
English hold
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English holder
From hold + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: holders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thing that holds.
pos: noun
examples: Put your umbrella in the umbrella holder.
gloss: A person who temporarily or permanently possesses something.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Davenant, the last holder of the laureateship, had died two years previously, and Howell, the well known author of the Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, and the late holder of the historiographership, four years before.
How many of these gafolgelders by contract were to be found on Saxon manors, whether on the lord’s demesne or holding virgates in the open fields, libere tenentes or free holders of villain holdings, as I have elsewhere stated we cannot tell, but if we may take the experience of the interval between the Domesday survey and the hundred rolls as any guide to the natural multiplication of libere tenentes on the lord’s demesne, the class may have become numerous on many, and perhaps mostly on royal manors, without giving ground, I think, for any inference in favour of the original freedom of the Saxon village community.
A request for a nonreviewable ruling must be submitted by an issuer or holder.
gloss: One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
pos: noun
gloss: The defending champion.
pos: noun
Derived words: 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
candle holder
candleholder
cardholder
chairholder
cigarette holder
coholder
copyholder
cryoholder
cupholder
cup holder
debentureholder
debenture holder
debtholder
deedholder
dwarf-holder
farm holder
fiefholder
film badge holder
footholder
fundholder
gasholder
grudgeholder
handholder
harp holder
haunch holder
high-holder
hill-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
office holder
officeholder
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
pot holder
potholder
powerholder
receiptholder
record-holder
recordholder
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
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