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# hello

«hello» in Mova's school dictionary: **A word you say when you meet someone or answer the phone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

exclamation (hello); noun (a hello, hellos); verb (hello, helloed — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A word you say when you meet someone or answer the phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#m1)

2) A word to get someone's attention: «Hello? Is anyone there?» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#m2)

3) Said when you are surprised (old-fashioned, UK): «Hello, what's this?» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#m3)

4) A noun: a greeting: «Say hello to your mum». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In manners lessons: greet people with hello, look at them and smile; answer the phone «Hello» but do not give your name or address to callers you don't know. In stories a «hello» starts a meeting between characters. Phrases: say hello, hello there, say hello to someone for me, wave hello, hello again.

### examples

- Hello, Mrs Brown! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#x1)
- Say hello to your grandma for me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#x2)
- She waved hello from the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#x3)
- «Hello? Who's calling?» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#x4)
- Hello? Is anybody home? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#x5)
- He said a quick hello and ran off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#x6)
- It's polite to say hello when you come into a room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#x7)
- Don't tell a caller you don't know that you're home alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#x8)
- “Hello!” replied the Tin Woodman calmly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hello/#x9)

### note

Also spelled «hullo» or «hallo» (older UK). Informal: hi, hey (US, Australia: «g'day»). Plural noun: hellos. Opposite: goodbye.

### In the corpora

- [A welcome card from new neighbours is a friendly hello, and getting on with neighbours makes life easier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/18/)
- [Newcomers are busy and tired; the friendly thing is to say hello first instead of deciding they are «stuck up».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/25/)
- [In the park a tiny chihuahua and a huge Great Dane sniff each other hello.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds/0/)
- [The first word you catch is nǐ hǎo (hello, literally «you good»).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate/2/)
- [Let a dog sniff you first; sniffing is how a dog says hello.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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