Other forms: holes
A hole is an opening or hollow in a surface. Dig a hole, a hole in the wall, fall down a hole.
It can go all the way through or not, which is why a hole in a sock and a hole in the ground are both holes. In golf a hole is the target and also the whole stretch played to reach it. A hole in one is the shot every player wants.
1nounholeAn opening or hollow in a surface.
“There's a hole in my sock, and my big toe is poking through.”
hole is an opening.
Old English hol meant a hollow place or cavity, from a Germanic root that also gave hollow.
Middle English
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English, today
hole
From Middle English hole. Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic hol (“hole”), from Proto-Germanic hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow. Cognate with Dutch, Faroese and Icelandic hol (“hole”), Danish hul (“hole”), Faroese, Icelandic and nrn hola (“hole”), Norwegian Bokmål hol (“depression, hole, cavern”), Swedish hål (“hole”), French houle (“swell of water”). Compare unrelated Finnish kolo (“hole”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA