holder
part of speech
noun (a holder, holders)
meaning for a pupil
1) A thing that holds or supports something: a pencil holder, a cup holder. tree →
2) A person who owns or has something official: a ticket holder, a passport holder, an account holder. tree →
3) A person or team that currently has a title or record: the record holder, the title holder. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life holders keep things tidy (toothbrush holder, phone holder). In sport, the «holders» are the current champions and the «record holder» has the best result ever. In maths and money problems, «ticket holders» or «account holders» are counted or paid. Phrases: record holder, title holder, card holder, cup holder.
examples
- Put your pencils back in the pencil holder. tree →
- Only ticket holders may enter the stadium. tree →
- Usain Bolt is the world record holder for the 100 metres. tree →
- The car has a cup holder for my juice. tree →
- The holders were knocked out of the cup in the first round. tree →
- Every account holder gets a bank card. tree →
- The candle holder was made of glass. tree →
note
Countable: a holder, holders. Often joined to another noun: cardholder, shareholder, householder, stakeholder (sometimes as one word). «Holder» is not «older».
In the corpora
- Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to bear the table.
- And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be holders for the staves.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «holder» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.