Definitions for Holly

Holly hol·ly

Spelling: [hol-ee]
IPA: /ˈhɒl i/

Holly is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in Holly (hlloy).

Definitions for Holly

noun

  1. any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex, as I. opaca (American holly) the state tree of Delaware, or I. aquifolium (English holly) having glossy, spiny-toothed leaves, small, whitish flowers, and red berries.
  2. the foliage and berries, used for decoration, especially during the Christmas season.
  3. Buddy (Charles Hardin Holley) 1936–59, U.S. rock and roll singer and guitarist.
  4. a female or male given name.

Origin of Holly

before 1150; Middle English holi(e), holyn, Old English hole(g)n; cognate with Welsh celyn, Irish cuillean; akin to Dutch, German hulst, French houx (Old High German hulis)

Examples for Holly

Pile them prettily on a dish, and decorate them with holly leaves.

Something tells me holly Golightly would have thoroughly approved.

Deck your halls instead with boughs of holly, shouting “Merry Christmas” (or “Happy Hanukkah”) well into the night.

In the first chapter, rebellious holly Sykes runs away from home and headlong into the melancholy perils of first love.

Until to-morrow night, then, blinded and bewildered with holly and cedar let me be!

There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a jungle, close about the door.

After laying in the jail at holly Springs about three weeks Wilson came for me.

From the religious (‘The holly and the Ivy’) to the secular (‘The Chipmunk Song’), my top 20.

The peare and holly may be made to spread, and the Oke to close.

Sam's family lives next to holly's family in Oxford and we're all looking forward to watching the children grow up together.

Word Value for Holly
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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