Meaning

4 senses
  1. A small valley between mountains.

    He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.

    c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter Forests grew upon the barren hollows.

    Mulde, Senke, kleines Tal

    a small valley between mountains

  2. A sunken area on a surface.

    He held the chick in the hollow of his hand.

    Höhle, Mulde, Kuhle

    впа́динаvpádina, углубле́ниеuglublénije, вы́емкаvýjemka

  3. An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.

    a hollow in a tree trunk

    Loch

    дупло́dupló, по́лостьpólostʹ, каве́рнаkavérna

    a cavity or space in something

  4. (figuratively)A feeling of emptiness.

    a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach

    пустота́pustotá

    пу́сткаpústka, пустота́pustotá

Examples

54 sentences
  1. The fox hid in the hollow tree.

    ruЛиса спряталась в дуплистом дереве. — elsteris

    deDer Fuchs versteckte sich in dem hohlen Baum. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. The fox hid in the hollow of a tree.

    deDer Fuchs versteckte sich in einem hohlen Baum. — Waldelfe

  3. Tom hid the bag of coins in a hollow log.

  4. My life is hollow without him.

    Моє життя без нього пусте. — deniko

    ruБез него моя жизнь пуста. — afyodor

    deMein Leben ist leer ohne ihn. — MUIRIEL

  5. The insect ate the peach hollow.

    Комахи виїли порожнину в персику. — ChickenKiev

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
feeling of emptiness:
Русский
By meaning 3
sunken area:
unfilled space in something solid; a cavity — see also cavity, hole:
feeling of emptiness:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
small valley:
sunken area:
unfilled space in something solid; a cavity — see also cavity, hole:

Origin

From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”)

From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulwiją, from Proto-Germanic *hulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide”). Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.

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Forms

plural: hollows
Singularhollow
Pluralhollows

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a small valley between mountains:holler
  • a depression hollowed out of solid matter:hole

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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