allhallows

1. 1.

   a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835

   SynonymsAll Saints' DayNovember 1HallowmasHallowmass

   Broaderholy day of obligation

   Part ofNovember

Other forms of allhallows

plural

allhallowses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about allhallows

What does allhallows mean?

allhallows means "a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835".

How many syllables are in allhallows?

allhallows has 3 syllables: all-hal-lows. The stress falls on "all".

What is another word for allhallows?

Close synonyms include All Saints' Day, November 1, Hallowmas, Hallowmass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is allhallows a common word?

allhallows is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.