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Hallantide

Hallantide noun: all Saints' Day.

Noun

Hallantide (uncountable)

  1. (Cornwall, Ireland, Shropshire, West-Country, dialectal, obsolete) All Saints' Day
    • Palmes and my friend, this night of Hallantide / Left all alone, and no way occupiedc. 17th century, William Browne, “An Epistle occasioned by the most intolerable Jangling of the Papists' Bells on All Saints' Night”, in The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock, volume 2, published...
    • Hallantide ... All Saints' Day, (hallow-een-tide)1872, Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings, “Somersetshire Glossary”, in Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's, page 17

Forms of Hallantide

alternative formAllantide
alternative formHallontide
alternative formHollandtide
alternative formHollantide

Questions about Hallantide

What does Hallantide mean?
Hallantide means all Saints' Day.
What part of speech is Hallantide?
Hallantide is a noun.

Words near Hallantide in the dictionary

  1. Hallandale
  2. Hallandale Beach
  3. hallans
  4. hallanshaker
  5. hallanshakers
  6. Hallantide
  7. Hallaton
  8. Hallatrow
  9. Hallbankgate
  10. Hallberg
  11. Hallbergs

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