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Hail
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- 1 Healthy, whole, safe. obsolete
- 1 An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting. archaic, poetic
"Hail, brave friend."
- 1 A province of Saudi Arabia
- 2 A surname.
- 3 A city in Hail, Saudi Arabia
- 1 Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm. uncountable
- 2 enthusiastic greeting wordnet
- 3 An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm. countable
- 4 many objects thrown forcefully through the air wordnet
- 5 A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects. broadly, countable
"Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using."
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- 6 precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents wordnet
- 1 To have hailstones fall from the sky. impersonal
"They say it's going to hail tomorrow."
- 2 To greet; give salutation to; salute. transitive
"[…] Farewel happy Fields / Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail / Infernal world, and thou profoundeſt Hell / Receive they new Poſſeſſor: […]"
- 3 praise vociferously wordnet
- 4 To send or release hail. intransitive
"The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes."
- 5 To name; to designate; to call. transitive
"Such a Son as all men hail'd me happy;"
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- 6 greet enthusiastically or joyfully wordnet
- 7 To pour down in rapid succession.
- 8 To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of. transitive
"Hail a taxi."
- 9 call for wordnet
- 10 To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.; To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving. Australia, UK, broadly, transitive
"In Melbourne, you would usually have to hail a tram when you are travelling late at night and there are no other passengers waiting at your stop."
- 11 be a native of wordnet
- 12 To signal in order to initiate communication with. transitive
- 13 precipitate as small ice particles wordnet
- 14 In the game of uppies and downies, to throw (the ball) repeatedly up and down at the goal location, in order to score a point. transitive
- 15 to originate (from), be native (to) or be based (in)
Etymology
From Middle English hayle, haile, hail, hawel, haghil, haȝel, from Old English hæġl, hæġel, hagol (“hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, of uncertain origin. Either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”); or alternatively from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hail (“hail”), West Frisian heil (“hail”), Dutch hagel (“hail”), Low German Hagel (“hail”), German Hagel (“hail”), Danish hagl (“hail”), Swedish hagel (“hail”), Icelandic hagl (“hail”). Compare also Old Norse héla (“frost”). Doublet of haglaz, if the second etymology (“cold”) is correct. Root-cognates outside of Germanic include Ancient Greek κάχληξ (kákhlēx, “pebble”), or alternatively Sanskrit शिशिर (śíśira, “cool, cold”), possibly also Lithuanian šešėlis (“shade, shadow”), depending on the etymology.
From Middle English haylen, haulien, hawelien, from Old English hagolian, hagalian (“to hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglōn, from Proto-Germanic *haglōną (“to hail”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian hailje (“to hail”), West Frisian heilje (“to hail”), Dutch hagelen (“to hail”), German Low German hageln (“to hail”), German hageln (“to hail”), Danish hagle (“to hail”), Swedish hagla (“to hail”), Norwegian Nynorsk hagle, hagla (“to hail”), Faroese hegla (“to hail”), Icelandic hagla (“to hail”).
From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole, hale, and heil.
From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole, hale, and heil.
From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole, hale, and heil.
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