holm

holm¹ Definition

holm (hōm)

noun

a small island in a river or lake, near the mainland or a larger island: used chiefly in place names
low, flat land by a river or stream; bottoms

Etymology: ME < OE, sea: sense infl. by ON holmr, island < IE base *kel-, to project > hill

holm² Definition

holm (hōm)

noun

Etymology: altered < holn, form of ME holin: see holly

holm Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

small: It seems that the earliest structure, a Bronze Age house, was built on this small holm in the loch around 600BC.

Modifies a noun

oak: I'm not sure what the large red berries were; the leaves reminded me of holm oak, the trunk of hawthorn.
tree: Take the middle path which goes steeply downhill toward a holm oak tree.

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