Holyrood
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English Holy Rood, Holyrode, holy-rode, holy roode, hali rode, halgorode, equivalent to holy + rood (“crucifix, cross”).
The town in Newfoundland is named after a location near Crewkerne, Somerset.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Holyrood
- An area in Edinburgh, the home of the Scottish Parliament.
- (UK politics, by extension, metonymically) The Scottish Parliament.
- 2020 December 16, “Network News: Scotland set to snub Johnson's Union Connectivity Review”, in RAIL, page 21:
- But Matheson has indicated that the Scottish Government will not be responding to the consultation because transport policy in Scotland is a matter for ministers at Holyrood and not at Westminster.
- 2023 March 27, Severin Carrell, Libby Brooks, “Humza Yousaf elected leader of Scottish National party”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Yousaf is almost certain to be confirmed as Scotland’s next first minister in a nominal vote at Holyrood on Tuesday but now has to bridge those divides by bringing the SNP’s warring wings together.
- A place in Canada:
- A neighbourhood in south-east Edmonton, Alberta.
- A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
- A community of Huron-Kinloss township, Bruce County, Ontario.
- A minor city in Ellsworth County, Kansas, United States.
- (Christianity) Alternative form of Holy Rood: the True Cross of Jesus.
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English compound terms
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɒliɹuːd
- Rhymes:English/ɒliɹuːd/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Places in Edinburgh
- en:Places in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland
- en:Places in Scotland
- en:UK politics
- English metonyms
- English terms with quotations
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Neighbourhoods in Alberta
- en:Places in Edmonton
- en:Places in Alberta
- en:Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
- en:Towns in Canada
- en:Places in Newfoundland and Labrador
- en:Villages in Ontario
- en:Villages in Canada
- en:Places in Ontario
- en:Cities in Kansas, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:Places in Kansas, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Christianity