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noun British Dialect.
1.
a low, flat tract of land beside a river or stream.
2.
a small island, especially one in a river or lake.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English holm; cognate with Old Norse holm islet, Danish holm, Swedish holme a small island, German Holm hill, island, Latin columen, culmen summit; see hill
before 1000; Middle English; Old English holm; cognate with Old Norse holm islet, Danish holm, Swedish holme a small island, German Holm hill, island, Latin columen, culmen summit; see hill
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holm
from O.N. holmr "small island, especially in a bay or river," also "meadow by a shore," or cognate O.Dan. hulm "low lying land," from P.Gmc. *hul-maz, from PIE base *kel- "to rise, be elevated" (see hill). Obsolete, but preserved in place names. Cognate O.E. holm (only attested
EXPANDin poetic language) meant "sea, ocean, wave."
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