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# hallowed

«hallowed» in Mova's school dictionary: **holy, made holy, or treated with great respect for God** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (hallowed); verb (hallow, hallows, hallowed, hallowing — old)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church) Hallowed means holy, made holy, or treated with great respect for God. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallowed/#m1)

2) Hallowed means greatly respected and honoured because of its history, as a hallowed football ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallowed/#m2)

3) (Bible, old) To hallow is to make holy or to honour as holy, as in the Lord's Prayer: «hallowed be thy name». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallowed/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Pupils meet it in the Lord's Prayer, said in many schools and churches: «Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name» — may God's name be treated as holy. In sport and history, «hallowed ground» is a place with a special, respected past, like a famous stadium or a war cemetery. Related: Halloween (the eve of All Hallows, All Saints' Day).

### examples

- «Hallowed be thy name,» we said together in assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallowed/#x1)
- The cemetery is hallowed ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallowed/#x2)
- Playing at the hallowed stadium was the player's dream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallowed/#x3)
- The old church felt hushed and hallowed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallowed/#x4)
- Halloween comes from «All Hallows' Eve», the night before All Saints' Day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallowed/#x5)
- The poem is one of the hallowed classics of English literature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallowed/#x6)

### note

Said «HAL-ode», two syllables. In the Lord's Prayer, «hallowed be thy name» is old English for «may your name be holy». «Halloween» is a short form of «All Hallows' Even». Not the same as «hollow» (empty inside).

### In the corpora

- [And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.199/)
- [The hallowed stones are poured out at the head of every street.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.122/)
- [And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasuries of the house of God, and over the treasuries of the hallowed things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.926/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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