Holmes: Meaning and Definition of

Holmes

1. 1879–1964, U.S. clergyman.
2. 1809–94, U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, and physician.
3. his son,1841–1935, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1902–32.
4. a detective in many mystery stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.