inholding
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A piece of privately-owned land inside the boundary of a national park, national forest, state park, or similar publicly-owned protected area.
Example Sentences
- "Thomas M. Daly, chief executive of the American Revolution Center, called the association’s concerns about inholdings a “specious argument.”"
- "O sirs, grace is not for inholding, but for outgiving; grace could not be grace if it were otherwise."
Etymology
From in- + holding.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: in