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Definition: Allhallows |
AllhallowsNoun1. A Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Allhallows" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Synonyms: AllhallowsSynonyms: All Saints' Day (n), Hallowmas (n), Hallowmass (n), November 1 (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday; months of the year; January; feast, fast; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day; Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Allhallows |
| English words defined with "Allhallows": All Saints', Allhallond, Allhallow, Allhallow eve, Allhallown, Allhallows Eve ♦ Halloween. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Allhallows": Allhallond, Allhallown. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Allhallows" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 76.47% of the time. "Allhallows" is used about 17 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 76.47% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (plural) | 23.53% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Allhallows": allhallows eve. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
allhallows sea | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Allhallows"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | la toussaint. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Allerheiligen (All Hallows, All Saints Day, All Saints' Day). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | ognissanti (All, All Hallows, All Saints Day, All Saints' Day, hallowmas). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | allhallowsay день всех святых (all hallows, hallowmas). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-l-l-l-l-o-s-w" | |
-3 letters: halloas, hallows, shallow, wallahs. | |
-4 letters: allows, alohas, halloa, hallos, hallow, hollas, sallow, wallah, wallas. | |
-5 letters: allow, aloha, awash, awols, hallo, halls, halos, holla, howls, lalls, lolls, ollas, salal, salol, shall, shawl, shoal, walla, walls. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 68 61 6C 6C 6F 77 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. .... .- .-.. .-.. --- .--. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01101000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l h a l l o w s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 0068 0061 006C 006C 006F 0077 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35787874677878818985 |
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