noun
wormhole
WM-hohl
noun
1
A small hole or tunnel bored by a worm.
"The old wooden beam was riddled with wormholes."
2
In physics and science fiction, a theoretical shortcut through spacetime connecting two distant points.
"The crew traveled through a wormhole to reach the far galaxy."
How to Use Wormhole
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither a literal hole made by a worm, or a science-fiction/theoretical shortcut through space and time.
Common pairings
travel through a wormhole
riddled with wormholes
Word Forms
wormholed past tense, wormholes plural, wormholes singular
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Etymology
Originally just "worm" plus "hole"; the physics meaning was introduced by physicist John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.