allhallows eve

1. 1.

   the evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people

   SynonymsHalloweenHallowe'en

   Broaderday

Questions about allhallows eve

What does allhallows eve mean?

allhallows eve means "the evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people".

What is another word for allhallows eve?

Close synonyms include Halloween, Hallowe'en. 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 eve a common word?

allhallows eve 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.