holloway
/ˈhɒləweɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3256).
Countable; Uncountable
name
An urban area of London in the borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ306859).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The first pronounced rise in the ridge is succeeded by Oldgate Nick: there isn't even a footpath crossing, but it is recognisable as a holloway. Here crossed a saltway from Cheshire rising from 5altersford Hall in the upper Todd valley"
- "Well, I see the road before me; sometimes I can see a bit further because I'm standing on a hill, sometimes I'm at the bottom of a holloway and have no idea even what lies on the other side of the hedge."
- "I enjoyed very much last week walking down that sunken track between Symondsbury and North Chideock--is that what one would call a 'holloway'?"
- "In different regions they go by different names — bostels, grundles, shutes — but are all holloways. Of course, few are in use now. They are too narrow and too slow to suit modern travel. But they are also too deep to be filled in and farmed over"
- "Six years later, after Roger Deakin's early death, Robert Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards. The book is about those journeys and that landscape."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: holh
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈhɒləweɪ/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
Inflected Forms
Holloways (plural)
hollow way (alternative)