hole
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
Other meanings
An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
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.
A kind of
- opening
Kinds of hole
- aperture
- bolt-hole
- bullet hole
- leak
- ozone hole
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "hol" (orifice, hollow place, cavity).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “hole” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.