HAIL


Meaning of HAIL in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

1.

If a person, event, or achievement is ~ed as important or successful, they are praised publicly.

Faulkner has been ~ed as the greatest American novelist of his generation...

US magazines ~ed her as the greatest rock’n’roll singer in the world...

VERB: usu passive, be V-ed as n, V n as n

2.

Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky.

...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy ~.

N-UNCOUNT

3.

When it ~s, ~ falls like rain from the sky.

It started to ~, huge great stones.

VERB: it V

4.

A ~ of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force.

The victim was hit by a ~ of bullets...

N-SING: N of n

5.

Someone who ~s from a particular place was born there or lives there. (FORMAL)

I ~ from Brighton...

VERB: V from n

6.

If you ~ a taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere.

I hurried away to ~ a taxi.

VERB: V n

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