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HALLOWEEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Halloween mean?
• HALLOWEEN (noun)
The noun HALLOWEEN has 1 sense:
1. the evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people
Familiarity information: HALLOWEEN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Allhallows Eve; Hallowe'en; Halloween
Hypernyms ("Halloween" is a kind of...):
day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)
Context examples
NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming Halloween flyby of asteroid 2015 TB145 with several optical observatories and the radar capabilities of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California.
(Halloween Asteroid a Treat for Radar Astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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