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Definition: Hallowmas |
HallowmasNoun1. 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: HallowmasSynonyms: All Saints' Day (n), Allhallows (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: Hallowmas |
| English words defined with "Hallowmas": All Saints' ♦ Halmas. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Hallowmas": Halmas. (references) |
| 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. | ||
| Words rhyming with "Hallowmas" (pronounced 'Hal"low*mas'): Allhallowmas, Candlemas, Christmas, Halmas, Lammas, Martinmas, Martlemas, Michaelmas, Yumas. (additional references) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6C 6C 6F 77 6D 61 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-.. .-.. --- .--. -- .- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 01101101 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a l l o w m a s |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426778788189796785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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