Hallow

Quick meaning: Hallow is a noun meaning (transitive) To make holy, to sanctify.

Meaning

(transitive) To make holy, to sanctify.

More Meanings

1. To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.
2. A shout, cry; a hulloo.
3. Alternative spelling of hollow.
4. (obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
5. (obsolete, in the plural) The relics or shrines of saints or non-Christian gods.

Example Sentences

Come hallow the goblet with something more true / Than words we forget in a minute.

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

To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.

All Hallows Eve (or Halloween), the night before All Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints' Day").

Word Forms

• hallows
• hallowing
• hallowed
• halow
• hallo

Synonyms for hallow

Depending on context, synonyms include sanctify, consecrate, bless.

Antonyms for hallow

Common opposites include desecrate, deconsecrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include consecrate, sanctify, bless, venerate, eve, parochian.

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