Holyoke
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A home rule municipality, the county seat of Phillips County, Colorado, United States. Named after Holyoke in Massachusetts.
A city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Elizur Holyoke.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
I shall always be most grateful to him. He made me rediscover that I had a mind. It had lain fallow, I am afraid, since my Mount Holyoke days.
In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place.
Eliminating standardized tests allows the cognitive elite to manipulate the soft stuff in ways the less-often-washed cannot. Mount Holyoke has accomplished nothing more than replacing a tyranny of merit with a tyranny of privilege.
After moving to the US, she studied political science at Mount Holyoke College and film production at NYU.
Although real trees pose the greatest danger, Holyoke Fire told Western Mass News you also have to be careful with fake trees.
BDN Outdoors Editor John Holyoke and his stepdaughter, Georgia Doore, pose for a quick selfie while deer hunting in Otis in 2019.