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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "All Hallows"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Hallow-day"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "hallowdom"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Hallow-eve"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Hallow-fair"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Hallowmas"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Hallowmass"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Hallow-tide"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Reedley Hallows"
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},
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"etymology_text": "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 Heilige (“saint”). More at holy, whole.",
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}
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"categories": [],
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{
"text": "All Hallows Eve (or Halloween), the night before All Hallows Day (now more commonly known as \"All Saints Day\")."
}
],
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"A saint; a holy person; an apostle."
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],
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"(obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle."
],
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"masculine"
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{
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"sense": "holy person",
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"word": "heiligen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"lang": "Finnish",
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "holy person",
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"masculine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"sense": "holy person",
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"sense": "holy person",
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"masculine"
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"_dis1": "100 0",
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"masculine"
],
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"masculine"
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"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "saludan"
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"masculine"
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"text": "To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there."
}
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"The relics or shrines of saints or non-Christian gods."
],
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"saint",
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[
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]
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"(obsolete, in the plural) The relics or shrines of saints or non-Christian gods."
],
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]
}
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"UK"
]
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"ipa": "/ˈhæloʊ/",
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"US"
]
},
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{
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{
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"2": "heiligen",
"3": "",
"4": "to hallow"
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{
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],
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{
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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "hallowing",
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"participle",
"present"
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},
{
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"past"
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{
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"word": "behallow"
},
{
"word": "hallower"
},
{
"word": "rehallow"
},
{
"word": "unhallow"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1847, Charles Swain, Dramatic Chapters: Poems and Songs, D. Bogue, page 324",
"text": "Come hallow the goblet with something more true / Than words we forget in a minute.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To make holy, to sanctify."
],
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],
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"(transitive) To make holy, to sanctify."
],
"tags": [
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "osveštavam",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "освещавам"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "hellige"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "helliggøre"
},
{
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"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "heiligen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "pyhittää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "sanctifier"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "bénir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "heiligen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "heilig machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "sanktifizieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "weihen"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "weihan",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hagízō",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "ἁγίζω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hagiázō",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "ἁγιάζω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "megszentel"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "santificare"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "consecrō"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "hellige"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "gjøre hellig"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "heilage"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "helge"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "gjere heilag"
},
{
"code": "non",
"lang": "Old Norse",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "helga"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "święcić"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "poświęcać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "santificar"
},
{
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "osvjaščátʹ",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "освяща́ть"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "naomhaich"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "santificar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "helga"
},
{
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "tambuim"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "kutsamak"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "kutsallaştırmak"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "saludükön"
}
]
}
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{
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},
{
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},
{
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{
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{
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"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "освещавам"
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"sense": "to sanctify",
"word": "𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽"
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{
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"sense": "to sanctify",
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{
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"sense": "to sanctify",
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"sense": "to sanctify",
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},
{
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},
{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to sanctify",
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"word": "santificar"
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"code": "gd",
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{
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{
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "to sanctify",
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