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Hallowe'en

Hallowe'en is the alternative form of Halloween.

Meaning of Halloween

Proper noun

Halloween (plural Halloweens)

  1. The eve of All Hallows' Day; October 31st; celebrated (mostly in English-speaking countries) by children going door-to-door in costume and soliciting candy with menaces.
    • They all get dressed up in scary costumes at Halloween.

Forms of Hallowe'en

pluralHallowe'ens

Words formed from Hallowe'en

Questions about Hallowe'en

What is Hallowe'en the alternative form of?
Hallowe'en is the alternative form of Halloween.

Words near Hallowe'en in the dictionary

  1. Halloways
  2. Hallowday
  3. hallowdom
  4. Hallowe'ek
  5. Hallowe'ekend
  6. Hallowe'en
  7. Hallowe'ener
  8. Hallowe'eners
  9. Hallowe'ens
  10. Hallowe'eny
  11. hallowed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hallowe'en (page history and authors); Halloween (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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