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hallow

noun
/ˈhæləʊ/UK/ˈhalo//ˈhæloʊ/US

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English halwe (“a saint, holy thing, shrine”), from Old English hālga (“a holy one, saint”), from Proto-Germanic *hailagô (“holy one”), from *hailagaz (“holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, hale”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Scots halow, hallow (“saint”), German Heiliger (“saint (male)”) / Heilige (“saint (female)”). More at holy, whole.

  1. derived from *kéh₂ilos✻ — “safe, unharmed”
  2. derived from *hailaz✻ — “whole, safe, hale”
  3. inherited from *hailagô✻ — “holy one”
  4. inherited from hālga — “a holy one, saint”
  5. inherited from halwe — “a saint, holy thing, shrine”
  6. inherited from halwe

Definitions

  1. A saint

    A saint; a holy person; an apostle.

    • All Hallows Eve (or Halloween), the night before All Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints' Day").

  2. The relics or shrines of saints or non-Christian gods.

    • To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.

  3. To make holy, to sanctify.

    • […]I am coming on, to venge me as I may and to put forth my rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
    • Come hallow the goblet with something more true / Than words we forget in a minute.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.

      • […] for the conversation (if it may be called so) was seldom such as could entertain a lady. It consisted chiefly of hallowing, singing, relations of sporting adventures, b—d—y, and abuse of women, and of the government.

    2. A shout, cry

      A shout, cry; a hulloo.

      • Then away they went from merry Sherwood / And into Yorkshire he did hie / And the King did follow, with a hoop and a hallow / But could not come him nigh.
      • I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel's bows.

    3. Alternative spelling of hollow.

      • If the sun were a hallow sphere of its present size and the earth were placed at the center[...]. Such a hallow sphere would hold more than a million balls the size of the earth.
      • But it was not a hallow victory.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA