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name
A surname An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in East Dorset district (OS grid ref SU0203).
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A suburb of the town of Hook, Hart district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7354).
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0738).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8662).
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8262).
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A village and community in Wrexham borough county borough, Wales, on the River Dee, the border with England (OS grid SJ4153).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in San Joaquin County, California.
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Okaloosa County, Florida.
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Taylor County, Iowa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
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A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
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A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Ingham County, Michigan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Fillmore County, Minnesota.
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Marshall County, Minnesota.
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Marshall County, Minnesota.
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A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Clay County and Clinton County, Missouri.
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A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Gage County, Nebraska.
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A former township in Adams County, North Dakota, now part of Central Adams, North Dakota.
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A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Ohio.
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A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Franzen, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
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name
A placename
A village in East Gwillimbury, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A placename
A municipality in Schleswig-Flensburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A placename
A hamlet in Overijssel, Netherlands; see Dutch Holt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A placename
A village in Tvedestrand municipality, Agder, Norway.
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A placename
A village in Letea Veche, Bacău County, Romania.
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name
A placename
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after PM Harold Holt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A placename
Ellipsis of Holt County.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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noun
A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
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History
English, Dutch, north German, Norwegian and Danish surname, all from the noun holt (“copse, woodland”).
From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), perhaps corresponding to a root noun *kél(h2)d ~ *kól(h2)d ~ *kl̥(h2)d- (literally “chopped (wood)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh2-, *kleh2- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”). Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse, thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wood, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Slovene kol (“stake”), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout. See also clade and cladus, possible doublets via Proto-Indo-European.
