halloa

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US/hæˈloʊ/

interjection

A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention to something or to incite; a shout.

“Halloa! what's this?”

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Meanings

interjection
  1. A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention to something or to incite; a shout.

    Halloa! what's this?

    2 more examples

    "Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.

    1866, Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man

    "Halloa! Stop there!" he shouted, holding his bicycle to block our road.

    1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC
verbhalloa (third-person singular simple present halloas, present participle halloaing, simple past and past participle halloaed)

present singular third person halloas · participle present halloaing · participle past halloaed · past halloaed

  1. intransitiveTo utter an exclamation of "halloa".
Cite this entry
APA

halloa. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/halloa

MLA

“halloa.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/halloa. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “halloa,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/halloa.

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