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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun holder has 3 senses
- holder(n = noun.artifact) Array - a holding device; "a towel holder"; "a cigarette holder"; "an umbrella holder" has particulars: candle holder, candlestick, cigarette holder, keyboard, oarlock, peg, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin, zarf
- holder(n = noun.person) Array - a person who holds something; "they held two hostages"; "he holds the trophy"; "she holds a United States passport" has particulars: ticket holder, bondholder, cardholder, cardholder, incumbent, officeholder, jobholder, landholder, landowner, property owner, leaseholder, lessee, mortgage holder, mortgagee, officeholder, officer, policyholder, slave owner, slaveholder, slaver, tenant
- holder(n = noun.person) bearer - the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it; "the bond was marked `payable to bearer'" is a kind of capitalist
is a kind of holding device
Derived form verb hold10
is a kind of owner, possessor
Derived form verb hold9
CIDE DICTIONARY
holder, n.
One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. [1913 Webster]
holder, n.
- One who, or that which, holds. [1913 Webster]
- One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant. [1913 Webster]
- The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it. [1913 Webster]" Holder is much used as the second part of a compound; as, shareholder, officeholder, stockholder,etc." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
holder, n.
1 (often in comb.) a device or implement for holding something (cigarette-holder).
2 a the possessor of a title etc. b the occupant of an office etc.
3 = SMALLHOLDER.
1 (often in comb.) a device or implement for holding something (cigarette-holder).
2 a the possessor of a title etc. b the occupant of an office etc.
3 = SMALLHOLDER.
THESAURUS
holder
accepter, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, beholder, bracket, candelabrum, candlestand, candlestick, chandelier, consignee, container, enjoyer, gas fixture, getter, girandole, have, haver, hearer, keeper, lamp holder, lampstand, light fixture, light socket, listener, looker, obtainer, payee, possessor, procurer, receiver, receptacle, recipient, sconce, spectator, taker, torch holder, torch staff, trustee, utensil, vessel, viewer, wall bracketROGET THESAURUS
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Possessor
N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.
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