hollow
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
food
geography
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
oenology
sports
wine
Etymology: From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulhwą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.
Inflected forms:
form: hollows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hallow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: holler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Southern-US
dialectal
especially
nonstandard
form: hollows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hollowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hollowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hollowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hallow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: holler
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Southern-US
dialectal
especially
nonstandard
form: hollower
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hollowest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hallow
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: holler
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Southern-US
dialectal
especially
nonstandard
form: hallow
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: holler
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Southern-US
dialectal
especially
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A small valley between mountains.
pos: noun
examples: 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 ..."
gloss: A sunken area on a surface.
pos: noun
examples: He held the chick in the hollow of his hand.
gloss: An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
pos: noun
examples: a hollow in a tree trunk
gloss: A feeling of emptiness.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach
gloss: to make a hole in something; to excavate
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Having an empty space or cavity inside.
pos: adj
examples: a hollow tree; a hollow sphere
gloss: Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
pos: adj
examples: He let out a hollow moan.
Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle:
gloss: Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a hollow victory
gloss: Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a hollow promise
"Hey, if anything happens to that, my ass is grass," Y.T. says. She's trying to sound tough and brave, but it's a hollow act in these circumstances.
gloss: Concave; gaunt; sunken.
pos: adj
examples: To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
gloss: Pertaining to hollow body position
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
pos: adj
examples: While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines.
gloss: Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
Derived words: Black Hollow
Frogs Hollow
frost hollow
hollow of the knee
Quail Hollow
Sandy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow
Ten Mile Hollow
tree hollow
all hollow
hollow back
hollow block
hollow body
hollow book
hollow earther
hollow-eyed
hollow-faced bat
hollow-fiber
hollowfiber
hollowfibre
hollow-fibre
hollow-hearted
hollowhearted
hollow-heartedly
hollow-heartedness
hollow leg
hollowly
hollowness
hollow point
hollow position
hollow post mill
hollow rail
hollowroot
hollow sprint
hollow victory
hollowware
hollowwort
jacketed hollow point
nonhollow
overhollow
ring hollow
semihollow
unhollow
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