See hallow in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1777, Robin Hood's Chase, reprinted in 2003, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Courier Dover Publications, page 206",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1772, William Read Staples, The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee, Knowles, Vose, and Anthony, published 1845, page 14:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A shout, cry; a hulloo."
],
"links": [
[
"shout",
"shout"
],
[
"cry",
"cry"
],
[
"hulloo",
"hulloo"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-æləʊ"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhæləʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhæloʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒləʊ"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɑloʊ/",
"tags": [
"US",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"homophone": "hollow (father-bother merger)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "halow"
},
{
"word": "alow"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "a lo"
},
{
"word": "hallo"
},
{
"word": "hollo"
}
],
"word": "hallow"
}
{
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"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with homophones",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/æləʊ",
"Rhymes:English/æləʊ/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ɒləʊ",
"Rhymes:English/ɒləʊ/2 syllables"
],
"etymology_number": 4,
"forms": [
{
"form": "more hallow",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most hallow",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "hallow (comparative more hallow, superlative most hallow)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "hollow"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1902, National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.), The Journal of Geography, National Council for Geographic Education, page 93:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, George A. Lyall, To a Different Drummer: A Family's Story, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 208:",
"text": "But it was not a hallow victory.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of hollow"
],
"links": [
[
"hollow",
"hollow#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
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{
"rhymes": "-æləʊ"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhæləʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhæloʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒləʊ"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɑloʊ/",
"tags": [
"US",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"homophone": "hollow (father-bother merger)"
}
],
"word": "hallow"
}
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