Hollo

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • interjection. Hey, hullo
  • noun. A cry of "hollo"
  • verb. To cry "hollo"
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "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?”"