Definition of Holds

1. Noun. (plural of hold) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of hold) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Holds

1. hold [v] - See also: hold

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holds

holding midfielder
holding off
holding out
holding pattern
holding patterns
holding the ball
holding the cards
holding up
holdings
holdoff
holdoffs
holdout
holdouts
holdover
holdovers
holds (current term)
holds a candle
holds back
holds fire
holds off
holds out
holds true
holds up
holdup
holdup man
holdups
hole
hole-and-corner
hole-and-corner(a)
hole-in-corner

Literary usage of Holds

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, American peace society, Algernon Sidney Crapsey, Ernest Howard Crosby, W. Evans Darby, John Hyde De Forest, Charles Edward Jefferson, Augustine Jones, Mrs. L. J. Mead, J. H. Ral (1891)
"... and Will. de Breton, the justices itinerant, by which Mathew del Moster [Monasterio] acknowledges that a messuage and six acres of land which he holds ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"By means of its principles, idealism maintains the distinctness of God and the world, of the absolute and the finite, yet holds them together in unity; ..."

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