Dictionary Entry
hole
hole is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Whole. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Whole.
- 2noun
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
- 3noun
An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
- 4noun
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
- 5noun
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
- 6intransitive verb
To go or get into a hole.
- 7noun
an opening deliberately made in or through something
- 8noun
one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
"he played 18 holes"
- 9noun
informal terms for the mouth
- 10noun
an opening into or through something
- 11noun
a depression hollowed out of solid matter
Synonyms
- 12noun
an unoccupied space
- 13noun
informal terms for a difficult situation
"he got into a terrible fix"
"he made a muddle of his marriage"
- 14noun
a fault
"he shot holes in my argument"
- 15verb
make holes in
- 16verb
hit the ball into the hole
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