holder

Other forms of holder

plural

holders·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about holder

What does holder mean?

holder means "a holding device". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in holder?

holder has 2 syllables: hol-der. The stress falls on "hol". In IPA it is /ˈhoʊldɚ/.

What is another word for holder?

Close synonyms include bearer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is holder a common word?

holder is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with holder?

11 words rhyme with holder. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.