sherlock holmes

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   a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle

   SynonymsHolmes

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about sherlock holmes

What does sherlock holmes mean?

sherlock holmes means "a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle".

What is another word for sherlock holmes?

Close synonyms include Holmes. 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 sherlock holmes a common word?

sherlock holmes 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.