adj
Meaning 1
Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unhale
Standard Lemma guide
hale
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/heɪl/
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rhymes with -eɪl
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homophone: hail
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homophone: hale
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CMU ARPABET: HH EY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Acronym of high-altitude long-endurance
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, not-comparable
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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name
Meaning 3
A topographic surname from Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 4
A place name:
A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Halton borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4682).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 5
A place name:
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Beetham parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5078).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 6
A place name:
A number of places in England:
A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ7786).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 7
A place name:
A number of places in England:
A small village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1818).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 8
A place name:
A number of places in England:
A hamlet south of Gillingham, Medway borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ7765).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 9
A place name:
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Cucklington parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST7527).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 10
A place name:
A number of places in England:
A suburban village in the north of Farnham parish, Waverley district, Surrey (OS grid ref SU8448).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 11
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Yuma County, Colorado.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 12
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jones County, Iowa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 13
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Salt Creek Township, Chautauqua County, Kansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 14
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Plainfield Township, Iosco County, Michigan.
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name
Meaning 15
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood in southern Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 16
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Carroll County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 17
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Carbon County, Utah.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 18
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 19
A place name:
A locality on the Algoma Central Railway, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 20
A place name:
A town in Korogwe District, eastern Tanzania.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 21
A place name:
A locality in the south of the Northern Territory, Australia, named after the Hale River.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 22
Health, welfare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 23
To drag or pull, especially forcibly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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adjective satellite
Meaning 24
exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hale and hearty
- whole in mind and body
- a whole person again
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: whole
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 25
prolific United States writer (1822-1909)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Edward Everett Hale
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writer, author
noun
Meaning 26
United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: George Ellery Hale
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: astronomer, uranologist, stargazer
noun
Meaning 27
a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Nathan Hale
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: American Revolutionary leader
verb
Meaning 28
draw slowly or heavily
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- haul stones
- haul nets
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: haul, cart, drag
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pull, draw, force
Narrower terms: bowse, bouse
verb
Meaning 29
to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She forced him to take a job in the city
- He squeezed her for information
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: coerce, squeeze, pressure, force
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: compel, oblige, obligate
Narrower terms: turn up the heat, turn up the pressure, drive, bludgeon, steamroller, steamroll, squeeze for, dragoon, sandbag, railroad, terrorize, terrorise, bring oneself
History
Etymology
From Northern Middle English hal, hale, variants of hole (“healthy; safe; whole”, whence whole), from Old English hāl, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole; entire; healthy”). See whole for more.
Abbreviation
* As an English surname, Old English dative form of halh (“hollow, nook”). * Also as an English surname, from Old English hæle (“hero”). Compare Hain. * As an Irish surname, from mac céile; see McHale. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Halle.
From Middle English hale, an alteration of hele (“health”) after Etymology 1. Cognate with Scots hale (“health”), German Heil (“salvation, well-being”).
From Middle English halen, from Anglo-Norman haler, from Old Dutch *halon (compare Dutch halen), from Proto-Germanic *halōną (compare Old English ġeholian, West Frisian helje, German holen), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to lift”) (compare Latin ex-cellō (“to surpass”), Tocharian B käly- (“to stand, stay”), Albanian qell (“to halt, hold up, carry”), Lithuanian kélti (“to raise up”), Ancient Greek κελέοντες (keléontes, “upright beam on a loom”)). Doublet of haul.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: здрав (zdrav) — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Bulgarian: як (jak) — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Czech: zdravý — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Czech: čilý — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Finnish: terve — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Finnish: hyvinvoiva — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- French: bonne santé — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- French: sain — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- French: pleine forme — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Hawaiian: ola — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Irish: breabhsánta — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Māori: ora — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Russian: кре́пкий (krépkij) — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Russian: здоро́вый (zdoróvyj) — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Samoan: ola — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Sanskrit: कल्य (kalya) — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Swedish: frisk — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Tahitian: ora — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Zazaki: rınd (diq) — sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired
- Czech: táhnout — to drag or pull, especially forcibly
- Czech: vléci — to drag or pull, especially forcibly
- Finnish: haalata — to drag or pull, especially forcibly
- Finnish: raahata — to drag or pull, especially forcibly
- Finnish: retuuttaa — to drag or pull, especially forcibly
- French: haler — to drag or pull, especially forcibly
- Tamil: இழு (iḻu) — to drag or pull, especially forcibly