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Definition: Halloo |
HallooNoun1. A shout to attract attention; "he gave a great halloo but no one heard him". Verb1. Urge on with shouts, of dogs in a hunt. 2. Shout "halloo". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "halloo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Allocution | Verb: speak to, address, accost, make up to, apostrophize, appeal to, invoke; ball, salute; call to, halloo. |
Interjection: soho! halloo! hey! hist! | |
Attention | Interjection: see! look, look here, look you, look to it! mark! lo! behold! soho! hark, hark ye! mind! halloo! observe! lo and behold! attention! nota bene, "N.B.", note well; I'd have you to know; notice! O yes! Oyez! dekko! ecco! yoho! |
Wonder | Interjection: lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, gad so! welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it!; (inexpectation); you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons! how now! where am I? |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Halloo |
| English words defined with "halloo": Alew, Alloo ♦ Halloa, Halloing, Hallooed, Hoa. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "halloo": Halloo when out of the Wood, Haro. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "halloo": Alloo. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Halloo! Turks in Gotham. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The halloo was sounded by 1772, 1815 is the quarry |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Halloo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Halloo" is used about 5 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 (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "halloo": view halloo. 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 |
halloo | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "halloo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thërras dikujt, bëj zë dikujt. (various references) | |
Arabic | نادى بصوت عالى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | викам на куче 'дръж', викам за да привлека внимание, дръж (hoicks, sic, sick, yoicks). (various references) | |
Czech | haló (hallo, hey, hollo, holloa, hullo). (various references) | |
French | huer, taïaut, appeler grand cris. (various references) | |
German | horrido, halloruf, hallo rufen, hallo (folks!, hallo, hello, hey, hi, yoo-hoo), die hunde hetzen. (various references) | |
Greek | κράζω (caw, croak, hollo, quack, screech, squawk), κραυγή (bawl, call, clamor, clamour, cry, holler, outcry, scream, shout, squall, vociferation, whoop, yell), κραυγάζω (bawl, clamor, clamour, cry, exclaim, scream, shout, squall, vociferate, whoop), γειά σου (hallo, hallow), φωνάζω (bawl, call, call out, caterwaul, clamor, clamour, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout to, squawk, yawp, yell). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kurjongat. (various references) | |
Italian | hallalì. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alloohay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | incitar (abet, actuate, arouse, awake, egg, egg on, encourage, excite, goad, impel, incite, instigate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, rouse, set on, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), atiar ces para caa. (various references) | |
Romanian | tãrãboi (affray, brawl, broil, fuss, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfuffle, racket, rattle, riot, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, splatter-dash, the devil among the tailors, to-do, uproar), strigãt (bawl, call, calling, cry, ejaculation, hoop, hoot, hue, outcry, roar, roaring, scream, shout, shriek, squall, yell), striga pentru a atrage atenţia, striga (bark out, bawl, bellow, brawl, break, call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cry cherries, cry out, ejaculate, hail, hallo, hollo, hoop, howl, page, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, shriek out, squall, vociferate, yell), ei (ahoy, attaboy, come, eh, gad, hei, heigh, her, hers, hey, hoy, I say, its, now, now then, phew, tell it to the marines, they, well), chemare (appeal, call, calling, challenge, convocation, cry, invitation, invocation, shout, slogan, summons, vocation), bre (ah, folks, heigh, I say, you don't say so), asmuţi (pit, whet), alo (hallo, hello, hi, hullo, oh). (various references) | |
Russian | улюлюкать ату, натравливать собак, подстрекать (abet, edge on, egg on, foment, incite, instigate, lead on, pick a quarrel, poach, set on). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vikati (clamor, clamour, cry out, scream, shout, sound off, vociferate, whoop, yell). (various references) | |
Spanish | hala, sus (her, his, its, their, theirs, your), grito (bawl, bellow, call, cry, daring, denunciation, ejaculation, exclamation, gasp, hail, hoot, howl, outcry, shout, shriek, yell), gritar (bark, bawl, bawl out, bellow, break out, call, call out, chant, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, faggot, fagot, holler, hoot, howl, outcry, scold, scream, shout, shout out, shriek, shrill out, sing out, to shout, whoop, yell). (various references) | |
Swedish | hallårop, ropa (call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cuckoo, holler, hoot, shout, summon, vociferate). (various references) | |
Turkish | hey (ahoy, heigh, hello, hey, hi, hoy, I say, o), kimleri görüyorum, alo (hallo, hello, hullo). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | репетувати (bawl, blare, squall), нацьковувати (hound, needle, play off, sick), ату (sick). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | iubila, iubilabit, iubilarent, iubilate, iubilationem, iubilemus, iubilo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "halloo": hallooed, hallooing, halloos. (additional references) | |
Words containing "halloo": shalloon, shalloons. (additional references) | |
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"Halloo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calloo, Callooh, Haflor, Halhoul, halio, halldoor, Hallim, halloh, hallon, hallot, hallu, hallux, Hallwood, Halmo, halog, halom, halon, haloo, halor, Halu, helloo, hellu, heloo, Helou, hillgoer, hillo, hllo, holloo, hulloa, hullu, palolo, Raloo, shalloon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: holloa. | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-l-o-o" | |
-1 letter: hallo, holla, hollo. | |
-2 letters: hall, halo, olla. | |
-3 letters: all, hao, loo, oho, ooh. | |
-4 letters: ah, al, ha, ho, la, lo, oh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-l-o-o" | |
+1 letter: alcohol, halloos, holloas. | |
+2 letters: alcohols, ballyhoo, coalhole, hallooed, holloaed, poolhall, shalloon. | |
+3 letters: alcoholic, allomorph, allophone, ballyhoos, coalholes, hallooing, haplology, holloaing, holloware, poolhalls, shalloons. | |
+4 letters: alcoholics, alcoholism, allomorphs, allophones, allophonic, ballyhooed, chloralose, hollowares, hollowware, holohedral, hormonally, hullabaloo. | |
+5 letters: alcoholisms, allelomorph, allomorphic, antialcohol, ballyhooing, chloralosed, chloraloses, chloroplast, ethological, foolhardily, haloperidol, haplologies, hollowwares, holoblastic, homological, homothallic, horological, hullabaloos, hypoglossal, loathsomely, polyalcohol, rheological, theological. | |
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