hail
Plural: hails
Noun
- precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
- many objects thrown forcefully through the air
- "a hail of pebbles"
- "a hail of bullets"
- enthusiastic greeting
- Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
- An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
- A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
Verb
Verb Forms: hail, hailed, hailing, hails
- To greet or acclaim enthusiastically; to call out to.
- praise vociferously
- "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"
- be a native of
- "She hails from Kalamazoo"
- call for
- "hail a cab"
- greet enthusiastically or joyfully
- precipitate as small ice particles
- "It hailed for an hour"
- To have hailstones fall from the sky.
- To send or release hail.
- To pour down in rapid succession.
- To greet; give salutation to; salute.
- To name; to designate; to call.
- To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
- To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
- To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.
- To signal in order to initiate communication with.
- In the game of uppies and downies, to throw (the ball) repeatedly up and down at the goal location, in order to score a point.
- to originate (from), be native (to) or be based (in)
Adj
- Healthy, whole, safe.
Intj
- An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
Examples
- Hail a taxi.
- He was hailed as a hero.
- In Melbourne, you would usually have to hail a tram when you are travelling late at night and there are no other passengers waiting at your stop.
- Players often HAIL a successful bingo play with excitement in Scrabble.
- The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
- They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English hayle, haile, hail, hawel, haghil, haȝel, from Old English hæġl, hæġel, hagol (“hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, of uncertain origin. Either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”); or alternatively from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hail (“hail”), West Frisian heil (“hail”), Dutch hagel (“hail”), Low German Hagel (“hail”), German Hagel (“hail”), Danish hagl (“hail”), Swedish hagel (“hail”), Icelandic hagl (“hail”). Compare also Old Norse héla (“frost”). Doublet of haglaz, if the second etymology (“cold”) is correct.
Root-cognates outside of Germanic include Ancient Greek κάχληξ (kákhlēx, “pebble”), or alternatively Sanskrit शिशिर (śíśira, “cool, cold”), possibly also Lithuanian šešėlis (“shade, shadow”), depending on the etymology.
Scrabble Score: 7
hail: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhail: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hail: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary