hallow

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈhæləʊ/    美 /ˈhæloʊ/|/ˈhɑloʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. 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.
  3. The relics or shrines of saints or non-Christian gods. in-plural,obsolete
    — To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.
动词 v.
  1. To make holy, to sanctify. transitive
    — […]I am coming on, to venge me as I may and to put forth my rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
  2. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Alternative spelling of hollow. alt-of,alternative
    — 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.

词形变化

hallows plural hallows present,singular,third-person hallowing participle,present hallowed participle,past hallowed past hallows present,singular,third-person hallowing participle,present hallowed participle,past hallowed past halow alternative,obsolete alow alternative,obsolete a lo alternative,obsolete hallo alternative hollo alternative hallows plural halow alternative,obsolete alow alternative,obsolete a lo alternative,obsolete hallo alternative hollo alternative more hallow comparative most hallow superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
All Hallows All Hallows' Eve Hallow-day hallowdom Halloween Hallow-eve Hallow-fair Hallowmas Hallowmass Hallow-tide Reedley Hallows hallowed

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English halwen (“to hallow, sanctify”), from Old English hālgian (“to hallow, sanctify, make holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailagōną (“to make holy”), from *hailagaz (“holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, hale”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Dutch heiligen (“to hallow”), German heiligen (“to hallow”). More at holy.
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English halowen, from halow (interjection), from Old English ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”, interjection), probably conflated with Old French halloer.
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