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hallow'd

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Archaic contraction of "hallowed," meaning made holy, consecrated, or held in deep sacred reverence within poetic and religious verse.

Detailed Definition
Hallow'd is an older form of "hallowed," meaning consecrated or treated with reverence. Collins uses it to describe the soldiers' grave as sacred ground.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Returns to deck their hallow’d mould” uses hallow’d, meaning made holy or revered; Shakespeare’s “this blessed plot, this earth” similarly sacralizes national ground; “Rain hallow’d the graves with a soft, silver sound” uses the verb figuratively; “The names were hallow’d by repeated reading” shows how ritual language can confer reverence
Additional Notes
The quoted spelling "hallow'd" is an archaic form that may puzzle modern readers even though the meaning is religious or sacred.; Found in the poem, Ode Written in the Year 1746 by WIlliam Collins
Also Known As
hallowed sacred revered consecrated
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