hallowed

[ hal-ohd; in liturgical use hal-oh-id ]

adjective

1. regarded as holy; venerated; sacred:

   Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.

   Synonyms: blessed

hallowed

/ ˈhæləʊd; ˈhæləʊɪd /

adjective

1. set apart as sacred
2. consecrated or holy

Derived Forms

• ˈhallowedness, noun

Other Words From

• hallowed·ly adverb
• hallowed·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of hallowed¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English halwed; Old English (ge)halgod; hallow + -ed ²

Synonym Study

See holy.

Example Sentences

The celebrated 31-year-old American ultrarunner is known the world over and loves the camaraderie he feels among friends and fellow runners when he’s in this hallowed mountain village.

From Outside Online

Such drops are needed because the hallowed grid-parity goal is misleading—the real question is at what point utilities will actually abandon existing coal plants and switch to solar, rather than merely avoid adding new coal capacity.

From MIT Technology Review

Before the 2019 Remembrance Ceremony, Governor DeSantis stood on hallowed ground, steps from where I escaped the building in 2016, and promised me that he would always support those of us impacted by the Pulse nightclub shooting.

From Washington Blade

It’s also playing out in the hallowed halls of global diplomacy.

From Ozy

The father and son promised one another they would be there to watch if the other reached that hallowed final weekend of the NCAA tournament.

From Washington Post

The largest mass grave in America existed uneasily as both hallowed ground and deconstruction site.

From The Daily Beast

That we find so hallowed and important, but also so asinine and silly?

From The Daily Beast

The director is following his Wolf of Wall Street success with a documentary about the hallowed New York publication.

From The Daily Beast

And what could be more honorable than rounding up your besties to pay homage to a hallowed pop deity?

From The Daily Beast

Jackson is more interested in the wide-open early days of the movement than in its hallowed end.

From The Daily Beast

Next morning that glorious garrison quitted the shot-torn plain they had hallowed by their deeds.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

From Project Gutenberg

In raising the lowest classes he will have hallowed a principle unknown before his time.

From Project Gutenberg

There were some at all events, to whom Rome, hallowed by a great ideal and noble rule, had become as the city of God.

From Project Gutenberg

And as we stand upon this hallowed ground, let us bury all animosities engendered by the war.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• holy
• sacred