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Hallamite

Hallamite noun: someone with a connection to Hallamshire or modern-day Sheffield, especially.

Noun

Hallamite (plural Hallamites)

  1. Someone with a connection to Hallamshire or modern-day Sheffield, especially
    • An enthusiastic Caledonian will occasionally talk about "that part of Scotland called England;" so enthusiastic Hallamites would seem to look upon the great county of York as a mere appendage to their own dear Hallamshire.1864, Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, Charles William Quin, John Cargill Brough, Thomas Archer (of London), William Bernhard Tegetmeier, William Jeffery Prowse, England's Workshops, page 108
    • The annual Congresses date from one held in Manchester, in Whitsun-week, 1868, and not from that held previously in Sheffield, although the Hallamites lay claim to the parentage of these annual assemblies.1890, George Howell, The conflicts of capital and labour historically and economically considered, a history and review of the trade unions of Great Britain, page 411
  2. A player or supporter of Hallam F.C.
    • […]although Hallam borrowed three other players from Norton, the match was totally one-sided with the handful of Hallamites and their unlikely allies being completely outclassed.2013 May 13, Adrian Harvey, Football: The First Hundred Years: The Untold Story, Routledge, →ISBN, page 104
  3. A student or graduate of Sheffield Hallam University.
    • We know our place (exactly), and we’re more than happy to laud it over the Hallamites.2016 April 18, Calum Paver, “Varsity Chants 2016: The best and the worst”, in The Tab
    • This used to have the retro 90s reversed-out negative space look, with the slogan “Sharpens your thinking” which a Hallamite friend of mine pithily altered to “Sharpens your drinking”.2021 December 27, Robin Wilde, “A Totally Objective Ranking of Every UK University Logo”, in Medium

Adjective

Hallamite (comparative more Hallamite, superlative most Hallamite)

  1. In the style of a person named Hallam, especially
    • And when the young rebel Hallam gets to Paris, if he ever does, he is going to admit this rightness, if he only does it on some rainy day while sitting at the "Cupola" (the Dôme's latest rival), listening to some emancipated Hallamite artists tearing everything to pieces after too many Pernods.1932 04, Town & Country
  2. The poet Arthur Hallam.
    • His personifying requires that he give over the Hallamite project of recreating Figuring the Dawn's "Lucid Outline".1986, Daniel A. Harris, Tennyson and Personification: The Rhetoric of "Tithonus"
  3. The campaigner Roger Hallam.
    • In the Hallamite model of protest, arrest is considered a show of sacrifice, which is in turn believed to win sympathy for the cause.2023, “The Public Order Act pushes us to rethink what protest can be”, in The Bristol Activist

Forms of Hallamite

Noun
pluralHallamites
Adjective
comparativemore Hallamite
superlativemost Hallamite

Origin of Hallamite

From Hallam + -ite.

Questions about Hallamite

What does Hallamite mean?
Hallamite means someone with a connection to Hallamshire or modern-day Sheffield, especially.
What part of speech is Hallamite?
Hallamite can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Hallamite?
The plural of Hallamite is Hallamites.

Words near Hallamite in the dictionary

  1. hallalling
  2. hallaloo
  3. hallaloos
  4. hallals
  5. Hallam
  6. Hallamite
  7. Hallamites
  8. Hallamshire
  9. hallan
  10. Halland
  11. Hallandale

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