placeholder

See also: place holder

English

Etymology

place +‎ holder.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪsˌhoʊldɚ/

• Audio (GA)

  (file)

Noun

placeholder (plural placeholders)

1. Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later.

   This data is a placeholder, so you'll want to include the real numbers as soon as you have them.

   • 2013 February 14, Scott Tobias, “A Good Day To Die Hard [film review]”, in The AV Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 March 2016:

     "I'm on vacation," [Bruce] Willis grumbles several times throughout A Good Day To Die Hard, in what counts as the film's sole running joke, a lame placeholder until he arrives at the big "yippee-ki-yay" punchline.

Alternative forms

• place holder

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:thingy, Thesaurus:whatshisname

Translations

that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later

• Arabic: العُنْصُرُ النَّائِب‎ m (al-ʕunṣuru n-nāʔib), ^{(please verify)} حَيِّز‎ m (ḥayyiz)
• Dutch: plaatshouder m, invul- (nl), vulsel (nl) n, vulling (nl) f
• Finnish: paikkamerkki
• French: marque substitutive (fr) f, substitut (fr) m
• German: Platzhalter (de) m
• Hungarian: (in general) helyettesítő, pótlék (hu), (as a term in computer science) helykitöltő, helyőrző
• Italian: segnaposto (it) m, simbolo (it) m, sostituto (it) m, variabile (it) f, tal dei tali m
• Macedonian: пополнувач m (popolnuvač), резервирано место n (rezervirano mesto)
• Maori: puri tūranga
• Norwegian: plassholder m
• Portuguese: calhau (pt)
• Russian: заполни́тель (ru) m (zapolnítelʹ), ры́ба (ru) f (rýba)
• Spanish: marcador (es) m
• Swedish: platshållare c
• Welsh: dalfan

See also

• greek, greeking (noun)
• lorem ipsum

Further reading

• placeholder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia