hole-in-the-wall

1. 1.

   a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place

   “his office was a hole-in-the-wall”

   Broadertopographic point

Questions about hole-in-the-wall

What does hole-in-the-wall mean?

hole-in-the-wall means "a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place".

How many syllables are in hole-in-the-wall?

hole-in-the-wall has 4 syllables and divides as ho-le-in--the--wall under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is hole-in-the-wall a common word?

hole-in-the-wall is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.