placeholders
USPLAYS-hohl-durz/ˈpleɪsˌhoʊldɚz/UKPLAYS-hohl-duhz/ˈpleɪsˌhəʊldəz/
- 1Plural of placeholder. Use it when you mean more than one.
The designer used gray boxes as placeholders until the photos arrived.
We used fake names as placeholders until the team was hired.
placeholders is a form of placeholder
placeholder, noun: Something that fills a space instead of the real thing, either for now or to keep details general. Full entry
- Forms
- placeholderplaceholders plural
- Spelling
- placeholder → placeholders: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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