noun

1. a hollow or hollowed-out place; cavity; specif.,
   1. an excavation or pit
   2. ☆ a small bay or inlet; cove: often in place names
   3. a pool or deep, relatively wide place in a stream a swimming hole
   4. an animal's burrow or lair; den
2. a small, dingy, squalid place; any dirty, badly lighted room, house, etc.
3. 1. an opening in or through anything; break; gap a hole in the wall
   2. a tear or rent, or a place where fabric is worn away, as in a garment
4. a flaw; fault; blemish; defect holes in an argument
5. Informal an embarrassing situation or position; predicament
6. Golf
   1. a small, cylindrical cup sunk into a green, into which a ball is to be hit
   2. any of the distinct sections of a course, including the tee, the fairway, and the green played the fifth hole in par
7. Physics, Electronics a vacancy in a semiconductor, crystal, etc. left by the loss or absence of an electron: in some semiconductors it acts as a carrier of a positive electric charge

Etymology: ME < OE hol, orig. neut. of adj. holh, hollow, akin to Ger hohl < IE base *kaul-, *kul-, hollow, hollow stalk > L caulis, Gr kaulos, stalk

transitive verb holed, holing hol′·ing

1. to make a hole or holes in
2. to put, hit, or drive into a hole
3. to create by making a hole to hole a tunnel through a mountain