Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun All Saints' Day.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The feast of All Saints; All Saints' day, namely, the 1st of November.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic
All Saints Day , November 1
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Together, the three celebrations -- All Saints 'Eve, All Saints' Day, and All Souls Day -- were called Hallowmas, and the night before came to be called All-hallows Evening, eventually shortened to "Halloween."
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The act of dressing up and begging door to door actually extends as far back as the Middle Ages when the poor would go knocking on doors on Hallowmas (November 1st).
Reyne Haines: Reyne Gauge: The History of Halloween Reyne Haines 2010
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The act of dressing up and begging door to door actually extends as far back as the Middle Ages when the poor would go knocking on doors on Hallowmas (November 1st).
Reyne Haines: Reyne Gauge: The History of Halloween Reyne Haines 2010
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The act of dressing up and begging door to door actually extends as far back as the Middle Ages when the poor would go knocking on doors on Hallowmas (November 1st).
Reyne Haines: Reyne Gauge: The History of Halloween Reyne Haines 2010
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The practice of Trick-or-Treating resembles the late medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas, November 1, receiving food in return for prayers for the dead.
Barbara Barton Sloane: Fright Night In America And Across the Pond Barbara Barton Sloane 2011
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If you're desperate for a post Halloween holiday, what better than Hallowmas, the day after Hallowmas?
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Tonight is Hallowmas, a recently created holiday to stretch the Halloween spirit that much longer.
super-suzan Diary Entry super-suzan 2006
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It was called that because it preceded All Saints Day called “All Hallows,” or “All Hallowmas”.
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I also evangelized him in the community, relating the tale of how, every year on Hallowmas Eve, the day when the spiritual most strongly encroaches on the substantial, this mightiest of gourds would rise to revel across the world with the most sincere of his adorers.
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I also evangelized him in the community, relating the tale of how, every year on Hallowmas Eve, the day when the spiritual most strongly encroaches on the substantial, this mightiest of gourds would rise to revel across the world with the most sincere of his adorers.
qms commented on the word Hallowmas
In Autumn is death's shadow cast
On thoughtless lad and callow lass.
The death lust they show
Is fervent but faux
The eve of the feast of Hallowmas.
November 1, 2016