holler

1. 1.

   a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

   “his bellow filled the hallway”

   Synonymsbellowbellowinghollaholleringholloholloaroarroaringyowl

   Broadercry
2. 2.

   a small valley between mountains

   “he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians”

   Synonymshollow

   Broadervalley

   Narrowerdell

Other forms of holler

plural

hollers·

past tense

hollerred·

present participle

hollerring·

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 holler

What does holler mean?

holler means "shout out". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in holler?

holler has 2 syllables: hol-ler. The stress falls on "hol". In IPA it is /ˈhɑlɚ/.

What is another word for holler?

Close synonyms include holler out, shout, shout out, cry, call. 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 holler a common word?

holler 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.