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heirloom

English

Etymology

From Middle English heirlome (heirloom, literally a tool or article passed to one's heirs), equivalent to heir +? loom.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /???.lu?m/
  • (US) IPA(key): /????.lum/

Noun

heirloom (plural heirlooms)

  1. A valued possession that has been passed down through the generations.
    Synonym: patrimony
  2. (horticulture) An old crop variety that has been passed down through generations of farmers by seed saving and cultivation, in contrast to modern cultivars used in large-scale agriculture.

See also

  • (agriculture): heritage, landrace

Translations

Further reading

  • heirloom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • holorime

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hallow

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -æl??
    • (UK) IPA(key): /?hæl??/
    • (US) IPA(key): /?hælo?/
  • Rhymes: -?l??
    • (US, dialectal) IPA(key): /?h?lo?/
    • Homophone: hollow (in dialects with the father-bother merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English halwe (a saint, holy thing, shrine), from Old English h?lga (a holy one, saint), from Proto-Germanic *hailagô (holy one), from *hailagaz (holy), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (whole, safe, hale), from Proto-Indo-European *kóylos (safe, unharmed). Cognate with Scots halow, hallow (saint), German Heilige (saint). More at holy, whole.

Noun

hallow (plural hallows)

  1. (obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
    All Hallows Eve (or Halloween), the night before All Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints Day").
  2. (obsolete, in the plural) The relics or shrines of saints or non-Christian gods.
    To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.

Derived terms

  • All Hallows
  • Hallow-day
  • hallowdom
  • hallowed
  • Halloween, Hallow-eve
  • Hallow-fair
  • Hallowmas, Hallowmass
  • Hallow-tide

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English halwen (to hallow, sanctify), from Old English h?lgian (to hallow, sanctify, make holy), from Proto-Germanic *hailag?n? (to make holy), from *hailagaz (holy), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (whole, safe, hale), from Proto-Indo-European *kóylos (safe, unharmed). Cognate with Dutch heiligen (to hallow), German heiligen (to hallow). More at holy.

Verb

hallow (third-person singular simple present hallows, present participle hallowing, simple past and past participle hallowed)

  1. (transitive) To make holy, to sanctify.
    • c 1599, William Shakespeare, s:The Life of Henry the Fifth, Act 1, Scene II
      ...I am coming on, to venge me as I may and to put forth my rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:consecrate

Derived terms

  • behallow
  • hallowed
  • hallower
  • rehallow
  • unhallow

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English halowen, from halow (interjection), from Old English ?al? (O!, alas!, oh!, lo!, interjection), probably conflated with Old French halloer.

Alternative forms

  • halow, alow, a lo (obsolete)
  • hallo, hollo

Verb

hallow (third-person singular simple present hallows, present participle hallowing, simple past and past participle hallowed)

  1. To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.

Noun

hallow (plural hallows)

  1. A shout, cry; a hulloo.
    • 1777, Robin Hood's Chase, reprinted in
      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.
    • 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.

Etymology 4

Adjective

hallow (comparative more hallow, superlative most hallow)

  1. Alternative spelling of hollow

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