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# halloo

«halloo» in Mova's school dictionary: **to shout loudly to call hunters or dogs, or to get attention** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (halloo, halloos, hallooed, hallooing) (old use); noun (halloo, halloos)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To halloo is to shout loudly to call hunters or dogs, or to get attention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halloo/#m1)

2) A halloo is that loud shout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halloo/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in hunting tales, the huntsmen give a halloo to call the hounds on

### examples

- The huntsman gave a loud halloo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halloo/#x1)
- The hunters hallooed to the dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halloo/#x2)
- We heard a halloo from the top of the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halloo/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «halloo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halloo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.