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Pronunciation: [hˈɒləwˌe͡ɪ] (IPA)

Holloway is a surname and a place name that has several synonyms. In terms of surname synonyms, variations such as Hollaway, Halloway, and Holleway exist. In terms of place name synonyms, Holloway Road and Upper Holloway are common alternatives. Holloway Road is a busy street in North London, while Upper Holloway is a residential area located to the north of central London. Additionally, the phrase "hollow way" is a synonym that refers to an old road or track that is sunken lower than the surrounding land, often due to heavy use over time.
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One of these subterranean passages, in part filled up, will convey its name to posterity in that of a street, called Holloway-head, 'till lately the way to Bromsgrove and to Bewdley, but not now the chief road to either.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
Some weeks later, while driving back with Jane Oglander from her first interview with her brother in prison, during that long-it appeared to her that endless-drive from Holloway to Westminster, Dick Wantele also asked her to marry him, and this offer she also refused.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
If Origen had to defend his language before a modern judge of the type of Mr. Justice North, the Christian father would have sore risk of Holloway Gaol.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh

Famous quotes with Holloway

  • It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.
    Rory Bremner
  • Your mind has been conditioned to Euclid," Holloway said. "So this — thing — bores us, and seems pointless.
    Lewis Padgett
  • If it had not been for Holloway, life might have settled back into an almost normal routine. The toys were no longer active reminders. Emma still enjoyed her dolls and sand pile, with a thoroughly explicable delight. Scott was satisfied with baseball and his chemical set. They did everything other children did, and evinced few, if any, flashes of abnormality. But Holloway seemed to be an alarmist. He was having the toys tested, with rather idiotic results. He drew endless charts and diagrams, corresponded with mathematicians, engineers, and other psychologists, and went quietly crazy trying to find rhyme or reason in the construction of the gadgets.
    Lewis Padgett
  • It was the random element that baffled investigation. Even that was a matter of semantics. For Holloway was convince that it wasn't really random.
    Lewis Padgett

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