Meanings
verball-hail (third-person singular simple present all-hails, present participle all-hailing, simple past and past participle all-hailed)
present singular third person all-hails · participle present all-hailing · participle past all-hailed · past all-hailed
- literaryoftenpoetictransitiveTo greet or salute (someone) with a cry of "all hail"; hence, to greet or welcome (someone).
Missives from the king, who all-hailed me Thane of Cawdor
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]
Origin
From all hail (interjection).
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Rhymes with all-hail
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APA
all-hail. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-hail
MLA
“all-hail.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-hail. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “all-hail,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-hail.
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