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Holloway

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhɒləweɪ//

A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3256).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3256).

  2. 2

    An urban area of London in the borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ306859).

  3. 3

    A hamlet in East Knoyle parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST876133).

  4. 4

    A minor city in Swift County, Minnesota, United States.

  5. 5

    A village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States.

  6. 6

    A habitational surname from Old English.

Etymology

From Old English holh (“hollow”) + weġ (“way”); compare the doublet Holway.

Forms

plural
Holloways
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).