Halloo

Quick meaning: Halloo is an interjection meaning Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.

Meaning

Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.

More Meanings

1. Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers.
2. A shout of halloo.
3. (intransitive) To shout halloo.
4. (transitive) To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on.
5. (transitive) To chase with shouts or outcries.
6. (transitive) To call or shout to; to hail.
7. (transitive) To shout (something).

Example Sentences

List, list, I hear Som far off hallow break the silent Air.

For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems.

Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.

[…] they set up two or three great Shouts, hollowing with all their might, to try if they could make their Companions hear; but all was to no purpose:

Word Forms

• haloo
• halloos
• hallooes
• hallooing
• hallooed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include holloo, haloo, hulloo, halloing, holloing, hollo.

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