Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To call out, cry out, or shout, in order to call attention, or in answer to some one who hails, or in play, or as an expression of pain.
- To urge or call by shouting.
- noun The cry “Hollo!”
- Ho there! hello! an exclamation to some one at a distance, in order to call attention, or in answer to one who hails: like halloo, holla, and hello, interj.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.
- intransitive verb To call out or exclaim; to halloo.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection
Hey ,hullo - noun A cry of "hollo"
- verb To cry "hollo"
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb encourage somebody by crying hollo
- verb utter a sudden loud cry
- noun a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
- verb cry hollo
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Examples
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Shakespeare was the first to set down the ancestor word hollo, when he used it in his play Titus Andronicus: “Hollo, what storm is this?”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Shakespeare was the first to set down the ancestor word hollo, when he used it in his play Titus Andronicus: “Hollo, what storm is this?”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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There was an edge to the soft voice, and I thought, hollo, is someone's piggy carcase aglow with jealous passion for our tiny poppet?
THE NUMBERS 2010
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What it is doin 'sittin' yonder, I cannae - but, hollo!
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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And as our eyes met through the cigarette smoke I thought, hollo, this is another of those momentous encounters.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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I was even whistling to myself as I loitered past the end of Hay Hill, and then my roving eye chanced to fall on a certain lighted window, and I bore up short, thinking hollo, what's this?
Watershed 2010
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"Rugby and Football" ... hollo, here we were again, though, and the hairs rose on my neck as I read:
Fiancée 2010
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Yet, even above the clatter of their hoofs did the incorrigible Nanty hollo out the old ballad —
Redgauntlet 2008
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You would have heard me hollo my own new ballad with a voice should have reached to Berwick.
The Abbot 2008
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In the eyes of these owners of Kenya any attempt to empower the hollo polloi would be akin to sharpening the very knife whose blades they will be forced to kiss.
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