hallowed
part of speech
adjective (hallowed); verb (hallow, hallows, hallowed, hallowing — old)
meaning for a pupil
1) (church) Hallowed means holy, made holy, or treated with great respect for God. tree →
2) Hallowed means greatly respected and honoured because of its history, as a hallowed football ground. tree →
3) (Bible, old) To hallow is to make holy or to honour as holy, as in the Lord's Prayer: «hallowed be thy name». tree →
sense in the lessons
Pupils meet it in the Lord's Prayer, said in many schools and churches: «Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name» — may God's name be treated as holy. In sport and history, «hallowed ground» is a place with a special, respected past, like a famous stadium or a war cemetery. Related: Halloween (the eve of All Hallows, All Saints' Day).
examples
- «Hallowed be thy name,» we said together in assembly. tree →
- The cemetery is hallowed ground. tree →
- Playing at the hallowed stadium was the player's dream. tree →
- The old church felt hushed and hallowed. tree →
- Halloween comes from «All Hallows' Eve», the night before All Saints' Day. tree →
- The poem is one of the hallowed classics of English literature. tree →
note
Said «HAL-ode», two syllables. In the Lord's Prayer, «hallowed be thy name» is old English for «may your name be holy». «Halloween» is a short form of «All Hallows' Even». Not the same as «hollow» (empty inside).
In the corpora
- And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
- The hallowed stones are poured out at the head of every street.
- And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasuries of the house of God, and over the treasuries of the hallowed things.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hallowed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.