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hall-mark

hall-mark is the alternative form of hallmark.

Meaning of hallmark

Noun

hallmark (plural hallmarks)

  1. (figuratively) A distinguishing characteristic.
    • You know what a university is, and a university degree? It is the necessary hallmark of a man who wants to do anything in teaching.1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC
  2. An official marking made by a trusted party, usually an assay office, on items made of precious metals.
    • It can highlight our embodiment, a qualitative step away from the hallmark machines that work so resolutely to disembody us.2007, John Zerzan, Silence

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Forms of hall-mark

pluralhall-marks

Questions about hall-mark

What is hall-mark the alternative form of?
Hall-mark is the alternative form of hallmark.

Words near hall-mark in the dictionary

  1. Hall voltages
  2. Hall's honeysuckle
  3. Hall's Japanese honeysuckle
  4. Hall's panicgrass
  5. Hall-Héroult process
  6. hall-mark
  7. hall-marks
  8. hall-of-famer
  9. hall-of-famers
  10. Hall-Petch equation
  11. halla

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