Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word HOLT
HOLT
Definitions of HOLT
- A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
- The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
- A placename
- A surname An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using HOLT in a Sentence
- She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876).
- Holt was born in Sydney and moved to Melbourne in childhood, studying law at the University of Melbourne.
- Turing is a high-level, general purpose programming language developed in 1982 by Ric Holt and James Cordy, at University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
- January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt.
- She is known for the discovery with Ian Holt and John Morgan-Hughes of the "first identification of a mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease and the concept of tissue heteroplasmy of mutant mitochondrial DNA", published in Nature in 1986.
- After a suspension of work, the Holt to Cromer section of line was completed by direct labour and opened on 16 June 1887.
- He was appointed Treasurer in the Holt government, and over the following three years oversaw a large reduction in the national deficit.
- Six more counties were added through the 1836 Platte Purchase, the acquired lands of which formed the northwest tip of the state and consisted of Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway, and Platte counties.
- His wife, actress Helen Maud Holt, often played opposite him and assisted him with management of the theatres.
- In the biography of her father, The Story of Walt Disney (Henry Holt, 1956), Diane Disney Miller explains that the first complete storyboards were created for the 1933 Disney short Three Little Pigs.
- It is the story of 80-year-old Edith Goodnough of Holt County, Colorado, as told to an unnamed inquirer on a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1977 by her 50-year-old neighbor.
- The ensemble cast also features Victor Mature (as Doc Holliday), Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs and Ward Bond.
- New York artist Vincent Castiglia uses his own blood to make paintings, and used it to make the artwork on the guitar of thrash metal musician Gary Holt.
- It is named for Joseph Holt of Kentucky, who was postmaster general and secretary of war under President James Buchanan.
- By 1610, the Name Northolt appears, with in this case, holt having no relationship with 'wood', but an evolution of hala, hale, hal, hall, halle and holt.
- Originally named Nodaway County, it was soon renamed for David Rice Holt (1803–1840), a Missouri state legislator from Platte County.
- Janice Holt Giles (1909–1979), a writer noted particularly for her regional novels and nonfiction, lived in Adair County from 1949 until her death in 1979.
- In the Domesday Book, Cley is recorded as a settlement of 38 households located in the hundred of Holt.
- Holt has a heritage railway station; it is the south-western terminus of the preserved North Norfolk Railway, known as the Poppy Line.
- Holt is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.
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