Definitions for Holmes

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Holmes Holmes

Spelling: [hohmz, hohlmz]

IPA: /hoʊmz, hoʊlmz/

Holmes is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in Holmes (ehlmos).

Definitions for Holmes

noun

1. John Haynes [heynz] /heɪnz/ (Show IPA), 1879–1964, U.S. clergyman.
2. Oliver Wendell [wen-dl] /ˈwɛn dl/ (Show IPA), 1809–94, U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, and physician.
3. his son, Oliver Wendell, 1841–1935, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1902–32.
4. Sherlock, a detective in many mystery stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Examples for Holmes

The cops were as incompetent as they often appear to be in the Holmes stories.

"We shall look in on our way to the train," answered Holmes.

"Lestrade has got him all right," said Holmes, glancing up at me.

Wade and Holmes shook their heads and whispered in a corner.

On Model B a Holmes rotary 7-cylinder motor of 4x4-inch bore and stroke is used.

I fancy Holmes would have destroyed those theories with nothing more than his intuition.

There was a cab passing as we came out, and Holmes hailed it.

But did you, like Justice Holmes, come back totally changed?

Holmes addicts had arrived at the show from all over the world.

According to McCain, Holmes was chosen because his experiences in the Civil War totally changed his attitude and life.