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Hallowe'en

Definitions: Hallowe'en

Hallowe'en

Adjective

1. He evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people hallowed adj : worthy of religious veneration; "the sacred name of Jesus"; "Jerusalem's hallowed soil" Halloween.

Noun

1. The evening befor.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Hallowe'en

Synonym: sacred (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Hallowe'en

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

All Hallowe'en (1952)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hallowe'en

"Hallowe'en" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hallowe'en" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4650,285

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hallowe'en

Language Translations for "Hallowe'en"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

mindenszentek előestéje. (various references)

   

Manx

  

Oie Houney (All Hallow's Eve, Hollandtide Eve, Hop tu Naa). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allowe'enhay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

ajunul zilei tuturor sfinţilor. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

канун дня всех святых (halloween). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

víspera de todos los santos (halloween). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hallowe'en

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-e-e-h-l-l-n-o-w"

-4 letters: enhalo, hallow.

-5 letters: allee, allow, alone, anele, anole, hallo, haole, hello, holla, leone, llano, newel, whale, wheal, wheel, wheen, whole.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hallowe'en


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 6C 6C 6F 77 65 27 65 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 01100101 00100111 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#111 &#119 &#101 &#39 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006C 006C 006F 0077 0065 0027 0065 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4267787881897197180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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