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say it: HOHL-ding
holding is a noun meaning "the act of retaining something". It is pronounced /ˈhoʊldɪŋ/ — HOHL-ding. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the act of retaining something
something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
“that hat is my property”
“he is a man of property”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for holding come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.