Hollow

/ˈhɒləʊ/ · noun

Meaning

(geography) A small valley between mountains..

Definitions by Sense

1. (geography) A small valley between mountains.
2. A sunken area on a surface.
3. An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
4. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
5. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate
6. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
7. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
8. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.

Example Sentences

He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.

c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter Forests grew upon the barren hollows.

This road leads through a sandy hollow shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood, / Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath, / The red-ribb'd hedges drip with a silent horror of blood, / And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers 'Death.'

[T]his is lonesome country; and here in the swamplike hollows where tiger lilies bloom the size of a man's head, there are luminous green logs that shine under the dark marsh water like drowned corpses ..."

He held the chick in the hollow of his hand.

a hollow in a tree trunk

a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach

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Word Forms

• hollows
• hallow
• holler
• hollowing
• hollowed
• hollower
• hollowest

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