n. 1
Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
n. 2
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
n. 3
An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.
n. 4
In games. A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.

Related words

Word family: hole-and-corner hole-in-the-wall holey holer
Phrases: watering hole rabbit hole fallstreak hole swallow hole donut hole quiggly hole smoot hole air hole
Is a kind of: interspace

Forms

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: box¹, fix¹, gap¹, pit¹, jam¹, den¹, maw¹, yap¹, gob¹
4 letters: spot¹, cell¹, mess¹, rent¹, jail¹, trap¹, cave¹, leak¹, bind¹, vent¹, dyke¹, lair¹
5 letters: break¹, cover², block¹, pound¹, pinch¹, cache¹, hovel²
6 letters: corner², cooler², hollow², cavity³, pickle², cavern², burrow², muddle²
7 letters: opening³, trouble², dilemma³, orifice³, fissure², crevice²
8 letters: weakness², aperture³, quagmire³
9 letters: situation⁴, concavity⁴
10 letters: excavation⁴
11 letters: perforation⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cover² = 2 syllables).