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Hallowmas

Definition: Hallowmas

Hallowmas

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 "Hallowmas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Note: Hallowmas \Hal"low*mas\, noun. [See Mass the eucharist.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Hallowmas

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

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Synonyms within Context: Hallowmas

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: Hallowmas

English words defined with "Hallowmas": All Saints'Halmas. (references)
Etymologies containing "Hallowmas": Halmas. (references)

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Modern Translations: Hallowmas

Language Translations for "Hallowmas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

всех святих. (various references)

   

Czech

  

všech svatých (all hallows). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mindszentnek napja (all hallows). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ognissanti (All, All Hallows, All Saints Day, All Saints' Day, allhallows). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allowmashay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

dia de finados (all souls' day), dia das bruxas. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ziua tuturor sfinţilor (all hallows' day). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

praznik svih svetih. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

día de todos los santos (all hallows, all saints' day). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

azizler yortusu (all saints' day). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

день усіх святих. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ng y lễ các Thánh. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Hallowmas"

Words rhyming with "Hallowmas" (pronounced 'Hal"low*mas'): Allhallowmas, Candlemas, Christmas, Halmas, Lammas, Martinmas, Martlemas, Michaelmas, Yumas. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Hallowmas

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-h-l-l-m-o-s-w"

-2 letters: halloas, hallows, mallows, mollahs, shallow, wallahs.

-3 letters: alamos, allows, almahs, alohas, halloa, hallos, hallow, halmas, hamals, hollas, llamas, mallow, mollah, sallow, shalom, slalom, wallah, wallas.

-4 letters: alamo, allow, almah, almas, aloha, amahs, awash, awols, hallo, halls, halma, halms, halos, hamal, holla, holms, howls, lamas, llama, loams, malls, molal, molas, molls, ollas, omasa, salal, salol, shall, shawl, shawm, shoal, small, walla, walls, whamo, whams.

-5 letters: aahs, aals, alas, alls, alma, alms, alow, also, amah, amas, awls, awol, hall, halm, halo, hams, haws, holm, hols, howl, hows, lama, lams, lash, laws, loam, lows, mall, mash, maws, mhos, moas, mola, moll, mols, mosh, mows, ohms, olla, owls, sall, sham, shaw, shmo, show, slam, slaw, slow, sola, soma, swam, wall, wash, wham, whoa, whom.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-h-l-l-m-o-s-w"
 

+2 letters: marshmallow.

 

+3 letters: marshmallows, marshmallowy.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hallowmas


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

48 61 6C 6C 6F 77 6D 61 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)

01001000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 01101101 01100001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#111 &#119 &#109 &#97 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006C 006C 006F 0077 006D 0061 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

426778788189796785

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INDEX

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


  

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