Noun: hallow
| Singular | hallow |
| Plural | hallows |
Sample Sentences
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All Hallows Eve (or Halloween), the night before All Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints' Day").
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To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.
Nouns inflected like hallow
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
halwe', Middle English Nouns '
halwe', Old English Nouns '
hālga', German Nouns '
Heiliger'.
Verbs referencing "hallow"
English Nouns
saint.