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Allhallows

Definition: Allhallows

Allhallows

Noun

1. 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: Allhallows

Synonyms: All Saints' Day (n), Hallowmas (n), Hallowmass (n), November 1 (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Allhallows

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Allhallows

English words defined with "Allhallows": All Saints', Allhallond, Allhallow, Allhallow eve, Allhallown, Allhallows EveHalloween. (references)
Etymologies containing "Allhallows": Allhallond, Allhallown. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Allhallows

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Books

  • Branch line to Allhallows : including Port Victoria and Grain (reference)

  • The history of Allhallows School (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Allhallows

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Usage Frequency: Allhallows

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)76.47%1397,576
Noun (plural)23.53%4175,879
                    Total100.00%17N/A

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

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Expression: Allhallows

Expression using "Allhallows": allhallows eve. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Allhallows

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  allhallows sea

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Allhallows

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

   

Russian 

  

день всех святых (all hallows, hallowmas). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Allhallows

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Allhallows


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

41 6C 6C 68 61 6C 6C 6F 77 73

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-..    .-..    ....    .-    .-..    .-..    ---    .--.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01101100 01101100 01101000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#104 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#111 &#119 &#115

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)

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

35787874677878818985

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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