Definition/Meaning of hollow

• English - Noun: hollow (plural hollows) A small valley between mountain s. He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies. c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To JupiterForests grew upon the barren hollows. A sunken area on a surface. He held the chick in the hollow of his hand. An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity , natural or artificial. a hollow in a tree trunk…
• English - Verb: hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed) (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed) To call or urge by shouting ; to hollo . 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis…
• English - Adjective: hollow (comparative hollower, superlative hollowest) (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside. a hollow tree; a hollow sphere (of a sound) Distant , eerie ; echo ing, reverberating , as if in a hollow space; dull , muffled ; often low-pitched . He let out a hollow moan. 1903, George Gordon Byron, On Leaving Newstead Abbey: Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds…
• English - Adverb: hollow (not comparable) (colloquial, not comparable) Completely , as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow .
• English - Interjection: hollow (alternative) Alternative form of hollo .