Word.ws English Dictionary

holloweth

holloweth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hollow.

Meaning of hollow

Verb (1)

hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed)

  1. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate

Verb (2)

hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed)

  1. To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
    • [T]he Converſation (if it may be called ſo) was ſeldom ſuch as could entertain a Lady. It conſiſted chiefly of Hollowing, Singing, Relations of ſporting Adventures, B—d—y, and Abuſe of Women and of the Government.1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 26

See all 14 meanings of hollow

Origin of holloweth

hollow + -eth

Questions about holloweth

What is holloweth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Holloweth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hollow.

Words near holloweth in the dictionary

  1. Hollowell
  2. Hollowells
  3. hollower
  4. hollowers
  5. hollowest
  6. holloweth
  7. hollowfiber
  8. hollowfibers
  9. hollowfibre
  10. hollowfibres
  11. hollowhearted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: holloweth (page history and authors); hollow (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “holloweth.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/holloweth. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.