☆ a small bay or inlet; cove: often in place names
a pool or deep, relatively wide place in a stream: a swimming hole
an animal's burrow or lair; den
a small, dingy, squalid place; any dirty, badly lighted room, house, etc.
an opening in or through anything; break; gap: a hole in the wall
a tear or rent, or a place where fabric is worn away, as in a garment
a flaw; fault; blemish; defect: holes in an argument
Informal an embarrassing situation or position; predicament
Golf
a small, cylindrical cup sunk into a green, into which a ball is to be hit
any of the distinct sections of a course, including the tee, the fairway, and the green: played the fifth hole in par
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