• • (British) IPA: /ˈhæləʊ/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈhæloʊ/
  • (America, nonstandard) IPA: /ˈhɑloʊ/

hallow (plural hallows)

1. (obsolete, outside, set phrases) 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").

• French: saint, sainte
• German: Heiliger, Heilige
• Italian: santo, santa
• Portuguese: santo, santa
• Russian: свято́й
• Spanish: santo, santa

hallow (hallows, present participle hallowing; past and past participle hallowed)

1. (transitive) To make holy, to sanctify.
   • c 1599, William Shakespeare, '''', Act 1, Scene II

     ...I am coming on, to venge me as I may and to put forth my rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.

• See also Thesaurus:consecrate

• French: sanctifier, bénir
• German: heiligen, heilig machen, sanktifizieren, weihen
• Italian: santificare
• Portuguese: santificar
• Russian: освяща́ть
• Spanish: santificar

hallow (hallows, present participle hallowing; past and past participle hallowed)

1. To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume III, London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book VII:

     {...}} 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, bawdry#English|b—d—y, and abuse of women, and of the government.

hallow (plural hallows)

1. 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.

hallow

1. Alternative spelling of hollow