hail
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (5)hails, hailed, hailing
- praise vociferously“The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein”Synonyms: acclaimheraldMore general applaud
- be a native of“She hails from Kalamazoo”Synonyms: comeMore general begin, startMore specific originate inSimilar derive, come
- call for“hail a cab”More general call, send for
- greet enthusiastically or joyfullySynonyms: heraldMore general greet, recognize
- precipitate as small ice particles“It hailed for an hour”More general precipitate, come down
Noun (3)hails
- precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currentsType of precipitation, downfallParts hailstone
- many objects thrown forcefully through the air“a hail of pebbles”“a hail of bullets”Type of object, physical object
- enthusiastic greetingType of greeting, salutation
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Translations
Noun balls of ice
- Spanish
- granizo
- French
- grêle
- German
- Hagel
- Italian
- grandine
- Portuguese
- granizo
- Turkish
- dolu
- Russian
- град grad
- Arabic
- بَرَد barad
- Chinese
- 冰雹 bīngbáo
- Japanese
- ひょう hyō
34 more languages
- Dutch
- hagel
- Polish
- grad
- Swedish
- hagel
- Greek
- χαλάζι chalázi
- Korean
- 우박 ubak
- Indonesian
- hujan es
- Vietnamese
- mưa đá
- Hungarian
- jégeső
- Portuguese (PT)
- granizo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 冰雹 bīngbáo
- Albanian
- breshër
- Breton
- grizilh
- Catalan
- calamarsa
- Czech
- kroupy
- Danish
- hagl
- Esperanto
- hajlo
- Estonian
- rahe
- Finnish
- rakeet
- Georgian
- სეტყვა seṭq̇va
- Hebrew
- בָּרָד barád
- Icelandic
- hagl
- Kurdish
- terg
- Latvian
- krusa
- Lithuanian
- kruša
- Malagasy
- havandra
- Norwegian
- hagl
- Romanian
- grindină
- Scottish Gaelic
- clach-mheallain
- Serbo-Croatian
- tuča
- Slovak
- krúpy
- Slovenian
- toča
- Swahili
- mvua ya mawe
- Welsh
- cesair
- Yiddish
- האָגל hogl
Verb to fall from the sky, of hail
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. hail, haȝel, AS. hægel, hagol; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. hagel; Icel. hagl; cf. Gr. κάχληξ pebble.
Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky.— John Milton
Origin: OE. hailen, AS. hagalian.
To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
To pour forcibly down, as hail. William Shakespeare
Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
Origin: OE. hailen, heilen, Icel. heill hale, sound, used in greeting. See Hale sound.
1. To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
2. To name; to designate; to call.
And such a son as all men hailed me happy.— John Milton
1. To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; — used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.
2. To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; — with from. colloquial Charles G. Halpine
Origin: See Hail, transitive verb
An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting. “Hail, brave friend.” William Shakespeare
All hail. See in the Vocabulary. — Hail Mary, a form of prayer made use of in the Roman Catholic Church in invocation of the Virgin. See Ave Maria.
A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call. “Their puissant hail.” Matthew Arnold
The angel hail bestowed.— John Milton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54