hole

1. 1.

   hit the ball into the hole

   Synonymshole out

   Broaderhit

   golf

2. 2.

   make holes in

   Broaderhollow

Other forms of hole

plural

holes·

past tense

holed·

present participle

holing·

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 hole

What does hole mean?

hole means "an opening into or through something". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hole?

hole has 1 syllable: hole. In IPA it is /ˈhoʊl/.

What is another word for hole?

Close synonyms include golf hole, hollow, fix, jam, mess. 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 hole a common word?

hole is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 hole?

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