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hallow

[ hal-oh ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
  2. to honor as holy; consider sacred; venerate:

    to hallow a battlefield.



hallow

/ ˈhæləʊ /

verb

  1. to consecrate or set apart as being holy
  2. to venerate as being holy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈhallower, noun
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Other Words From

  • hallow·er noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hallow1

First recorded before 900; Middle English hal(o)wen, Old English hālgian (cognate with German heiligen, Old Norse helga ), derivative of hālig “consecrated, sacred, holy”; holy
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hallow1

Old English hālgian, from hālig holy
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Example Sentences

As election day looms just beyond this ancient celebration, it’s time to put the “hallow” back in Halloween.

The hallowed New York Yankees stood frozen in their dugout, stripped of their aura and bludgeoned at their essence, painfully demolished pinstripe by pinstripe.

The Dodgers are finishing October with a team of Supermen, and even the hallowed home of the hallowed pinstripes couldn’t phase them.

Any structure is a living embodiment of history, and many stadiums are hallowed ground to their fans.

The result is that we now have as many supermarket chains as we have categories of food product in those hallowed minor warehouses.

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