Halloween

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• Hallowe'en
• Halloweven (archaic)

A Scottish shortening of Allhalloweven, from Allhallowmas (the obsolete earlier name of All Saints' Day) + even (an archaic or poetic variant of eve; see also een).

For the American pronunciation with /ɑ/, compare the Southern English traditional dialect pronunciations fallow /ˈfɒ.lə/ and tallow /ˈtɒ.lə/.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌha.ləˈwiːn/, /ˌha.ləʊˈiːn/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌhæ.ləˈwiːn/, /ˌhɑ.ləˈwiːn/, /ˌhæ.loʊˈiːn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːn
• Hyphenation: Hal‧low‧een

Halloween (plural Halloweens)

2. The eve of All Hallows' Day; October 31st; celebrated (mostly in English-speaking countries) by children going door-to-door in costume and soliciting candy with menaces.

   They all get dressed up in scary costumes at Halloween.

   • 1987, Kai Hansen, "Halloween", Helloween, Keeper Of The Seven Keys: Part 1.

     Black is the night full of fright / You'll be missing the day / What will be here very soon / Changing your way / A knock at your door / It is real or is it a dream / On trembling legs you open the door / And you scream... on Halloween

• → Hawaiian: Heleuī
• → Hindi: हैलोवीन (hailovīn)
• → Japanese: ハロウィン, ハロウィーン
• → Malayalam: ഹാലോവീൻ (hālōvīṉ)
• → Maori: Harawīni
• → Russian: Хеллоуи́н (Xellouín)
  • → Bashkir: Хэллоуин (Xellowin)
  • → Tajik: Хеллоуин (Xellouyin)
  • → Tatar: Хэллоуин (Xellouwin)
• → Thai: ฮาโลวีน (haa-loo-wiin)
• → Ukrainian: Хеллові́н (Xellovín)

Borrowed from English Halloween.

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛ.loːˈʋin/, [ɦɛ.loˈwiːn]

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• Hyphenation: Hal‧lo‧ween

Halloween n (plural Halloweens)

2. Halloween (October 31st)

• halloweenavond (“the night of Halloween”)
• halloweenfeest (“the celebration of Halloween; a Halloween party”)
• halloweenkostuum (“Halloween costume”)

Borrowed from English Halloween.

• ^{(aspirated h)} (France) IPA^(key): /a.lɔ.win/

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• ^{(aspirated h)} (Quebec) IPA^(key): /a.lo.win/
• Hyphenation: Ha‧llo‧ween

Halloween f (plural Halloweens)

2. Halloween (October 31st)

• Samain
• Halloween on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Unadapted borrowing from English Halloween.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛ.loˌwiːn/, /-ˌviːn/

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• Hyphenation: Hal‧lo‧ween

Halloween n (strong, genitive Halloweens or Halloween, no plural)

2. Halloween (October 31st)

• “Halloween” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Halloween” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Halloween” in Duden online

Borrowed from English Halloween.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.lo.win/, /al.loˈwin/
• Rhymes: -allowin, -in

Halloween m

2. Halloween (October 31st)

• Ognissanti

Unadapted borrowing from English Halloween. First attested in 1943.

• IPA^(key): /xɛ.lɔˈin/, /xa.lɔˈin/, /ˈxɛ.lɔ.win/, /xɛ.lɔˈwin/, /ˈxa.lɔ.win/, /xa.lɔˈwin/

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• Rhymes: -in, -ɛlɔwin, -alɔwin
• Syllabification: Ha‧llo‧ween

Halloween n or m inan (indeclinable, related adjective halloweenowy)

2. Halloween (October 31st)

   Hypernym: święto

As a neuter noun: indeclinable.

(less common) As a masculine inanimate noun:

• Halloween in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Halloween in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English Halloween.

• Rhymes: -ĩ, -in, -inɨ
• Hyphenation: Hal‧lo‧ween

Halloween m

2. Halloween (October 31st)

   Synonym: Dia das Bruxas

   Coordinate term: Dia do Saci

   • 1995 March, André Barcinski, quoting Supla, “Supla Legal”, Páginas Negras, in Trip, volume 8, number 41, Você ouve todos os estilos de rock ou é um daqueles punks ortodoxos?, page 7, column 2:

     Não, sempre tive a cabeça muito aberta. Acho que o artista tem que ser como uma esponja, e absorver tudo que está à sua volta. Outro dia, no Halloween, fui ver o Mercyful Fate (veterana banda de heavy metal) fantasiado de Super Supla...

     No, I've always been very open-minded. I think an artist must be like a sponge, and absorb everything around them. The other day, on Halloween, I went to watch Mercyful Fate (a veteran heavy metal band) dressed up as Super Supla...

• “Halloween”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “Halloween”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “Halloween”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
• “Halloween”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Unadapted borrowing from English Halloween.

Halloween n (uncountable)

2. Halloween (October 31st)

Unadapted borrowing from English Halloween.

• IPA^(key): /xaloˈwin/ [xa.loˈwĩn]
  • Rhymes: -in
• IPA^(key): /ˈxalowin/ [ˈxa.lo.wĩn]
  • Rhymes: -alowin
• Syllabification: Ha‧llo‧ween

Halloween m (plural Halloweens)

2. Halloween (October 31st)