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hallow
[ hal-oh ]
verb (used with object)
- to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
- to honor as holy; consider sacred; venerate:
to hallow a battlefield.
hallow
/ ˈæəʊ /
verb
- to consecrate or set apart as being holy
- to venerate as being holy
Derived Forms
- ˈǷɱ, noun
Other Word Forms
- lǷ· noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of hallow1
Example Sentences
Perhaps no storage room is more hallowed in cinema than the 67-square-foot space known as the Criterion Closet.
However, equal amounts of attention will be paid to the artists who didn't make it into the hallowed hall, which encompasses all genres of popular music.
In the hallowed name of realism, Mendoza and Garland include all of the moments of nothing that lead up to a full-on attack from the American enemy.
Beatty’s scabrous satire follows a Black man who decides to reinstate slavery in his rural Los Angeles enclave, a crime for which he finds himself in the hallowed halls of the Supreme Court.
"The house bears the footprints of my forefathers – the house to me is on hallowed ground."
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