holden

• Rhymes: -əʊldən

holden

1. (archaic) past participle of hold
   • Holland

     Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk.

   • 1766, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:

     The court of sweinmote is to be holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the swein-mote, thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

     She was pale and trembling. He came to her relief with a fixed despair of himself, which made the interview unlike any other that could have been holden.

• held on, hondel

From Old Danish haldæn, from Old Norse haldinn, = the past participle of halda (“to hold”). Compare German gehalten.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhʌlən]

holden (neuter holdent, plural and definite singular attributive holdne)

1. well-to-do, prosperous

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• Rhymes: -ɔldən

holden

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of hollen

holden

1. to hold

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holden

1. inflection of hold:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

• halden, halde

From Old English healdan, from Proto-West Germanic *haldan, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to watch, look after”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːldən/

holden

1. to hold
2. to consider

• English: hold
  • Northumbrian: hauld, haad
• Scots: hald, hauld, haud, had
• Yola: houle

• “hōlden, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.