hollow

Meanings

Noun

• A small valley between mountains.
• A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
• A feeling of emptiness.
• A sunken area.

Verb

• to make a hole in something; to excavate
• To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.

Adjective

• Having an empty space or cavity inside.
• Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
• Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
• Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
• Concave; gaunt; sunken.
• Pertaining to hollow body position

Adverb

• Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

Interjection

• Alternative of hollo

Origin

• From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh, from Proto-Germanic *halhwaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Perhaps related to hole.
• From Middle English holowe, holwe, holuȝ, holgh, from the noun (see above).
• Compare holler.