hole
(noun) an opening deliberately made in or through something
hole, golf hole
(noun) one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; “he played 18 holes”
trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gob
(noun) informal terms for the mouth
hole
(noun) an opening into or through something
hole, hollow
(noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter
hole
(noun) an unoccupied space
fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation; “he got into a terrible fix”; “he made a muddle of his marriage”
hole
(noun) a fault; “he shot holes in my argument”
hole
(verb) make holes in
hole, hole out
(verb) hit the ball into the hole
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hole (plural holes)
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
An opening in a solid.
(heading) In games.
(golf) 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 particular type grass.
(golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
(baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
(chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
(stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
(archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
(figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
(informal) A container or receptacle.
(physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
(computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
(slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
(Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
(informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
Synonym: box
(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
(figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
• See also hole
• (solitary confinement): administrative segregation, ad-seg, block (UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit
hole (third-person singular simple present holes, present participle holing, simple past and past participle holed)
(transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
(transitive, by extension) To destroy.
(intransitive) To go into a hole.
(transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
(transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
hole (comparative holer or more hole, superlative holest or most hole)
Obsolete form of whole.
• Hoel, OHLE, helo, ohel, oleh
Source: Wiktionary
Hole, a.
Definition: Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hole, n. Etym: [OE. hol, hole, AS. hol, hole, cavern, from hol, a., hollow; akin to D. hol, OHG. hol, G. hohl, Dan.huul hollow, hul hole, Sw. hĂĄl, Icel. hola; prob. from the root of AS. helan to conceal. See Hele, Hell, and cf. Hold of a ship.]
1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. The holes where eyes should be. Shak. The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes. Tennyson. The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid. 2 Kings xii. 9.
2. An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. Dryden. The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Luke ix. 58.
Syn.
– Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell. Hole and corner, clandestine, underhand. [Colloq.] "The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery. " Dickens.
– Hole board (Fancy Weaving), a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; -- called also compass board.
Hole, v. t. Etym: [AS. holian. See Hole, n.]
1. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. Chapman.
2. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
Hole, v. i.
Definition: To go or get into a hole. B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 May 2025
(noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines); “the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
