Holly Black was born in a decrepit Victorian house in New Jersey.
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Holly
//ˈhɑli//
Synonyms for "holly" (20 found)
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13 entriesTranslations
92 translations across 60 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- ashe noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κήλαστρος noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Arabic
2 entries- إِيلِكْس noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- بَهَشِيَّة noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Armenian
1 entries- փշարմավ noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Asturian
1 entries- acebu noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- pirkal noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- şümşə noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Basque
1 entries- gorosti noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Breton
1 entries- kelenn noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Bulgarian
2 entries- бодлива зеленика noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- джел noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Catalan
1 entries- grèvol noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏍᏓᏍᏗ noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 冬青 noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Cornish
2 entries- kelyn noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- kelynnen noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Czech
1 entries- cesmína noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Danish
1 entries- kristtorn noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Dutch
1 entries- hulst noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Esperanto
1 entries- ilekso noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Estonian
2 entries- astelpõõsas noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- iileks noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Finnish
1 entries- orjanlaakeri noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- agriblon noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
French
1 entries- houx noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Friulian
1 entries- rafacon noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Galician
2 entries- acivro noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- xardón noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Georgian
2 entries- ბაძგი noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- ჭყორი noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
German
4 entries- Hulse noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- Hulst noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- Hülsdorn noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- Hülse noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Greek
1 entries- ίλεξ noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Hungarian
1 entries- magyal noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Ido
1 entries- ilexo noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Irish
2 entries- crann cuilinn noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- cuileann noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Italian
1 entries- agrifoglio noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Japanese
3 entries- 犬黄楊 noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- 西洋柊 noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- 黐の木 noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Latin
1 entries- acrifolium noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bugienis noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Mingrelian
3 entries- ბარცხელი noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- ბარცხინი noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- ბაძგი noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Navajo
1 entries- didzéłchííʼ noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Norman
1 entries- housse noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Norwegian
1 entries- kristtorn noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Occitan
4 entries- agreu noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- agrèvol noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- grefuèlh noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- grifol noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Old English
1 entries- holen noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- پرنال noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Persian
1 entries- خاس noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Polish
1 entries- ostrokrzew noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Portuguese
1 entries- azevinho noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Quechua
2 entries- asiwu noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- wayusa noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Romanian
2 entries- ilice noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- laur noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Russian
2 entries- остроли́ст noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- па́дуб noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Sardinian
4 entries- alase noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- bolostru noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- golosti noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- olosti noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- crann-cuilinn noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- craobh-chuilinn noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- cuileann noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- božíkovina noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- божи́ковина noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Sicilian
1 entries- addaurufogghiu noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Slovak
1 entries- cezmína noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Slovene
1 entries- bodíka noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Spanish
1 entries- acebo noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Svan
1 entries- ბა̈რცხილ noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Swedish
1 entries- järnek noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Tagalog
1 entries- asebo noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Turkish
1 entries- çobanpüskülü noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Ukrainian
1 entries- па́дуб noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Venetan
2 entries- agrifoi noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- spergol noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Welsh
2 entries- celyn noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
- celynen noun (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Holly branches are often used for decoration at Christmas.
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Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas,' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
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Holly is jumping on the trampoline.
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