Definition of Hollow

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Hollow

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.

Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.

Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.

A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.

To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.

Hollo.

To shout; to hollo.

To urge or call by shouting.

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Hollow Quotations

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
Henry David Thoreau

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Franz Kafka

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
Lewis Mumford

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Abdul Kalam

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
James Thurber

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
Gustav Mahler

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Thomas Wolfe

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
Richard O'Brien

Hollow Translations

hollow in Danish is hul
hollow in Dutch is hol, ingevallen
hollow in French is cavez, caver, cavent, cavons
hollow in Italian is concavo
hollow in Latin is alveus
hollow in Norwegian is hul, hulning, fordypning, innfallen
hollow in Portuguese is cavidade
hollow in Spanish is hondonada, vacuo

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