Definitions for hails

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hails hail

Spelling: [heyl]

IPA: /heɪl/

Hails is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in hails (ahils).

Definitions for hails

noun

1. a shout or call to attract attention:
2. a salutation or greeting:
3. the act of hailing.
4. showery precipitation in the form of irregular pellets or balls of ice more than 1/5 (0.2) inch (5 mm) in diameter, falling from a cumulonimbus cloud (distinguished from sleet).
5. a shower or storm of such precipitation.
6. a shower of anything:

Idioms

1. within hail, within range of hearing; audible:

Verb phrases

1. hail from, to have as one's place of birth or residence:

interjection

1. (used as a salutation, greeting, or acclamation.)

verb (used with object)

1. to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
2. to acclaim; approve enthusiastically:
3. to call out to in order to stop, attract attention, ask aid, etc.:
4. to pour down on as or like hail:

verb (used without object)

1. to call out in order to greet, attract attention, etc.:
2. to pour down hail (often used impersonally with it as subject):
3. to fall or shower as hail:

Origin of hails

1150-1200; Middle English haile, earlier heilen, derivative of hail health Old Norse heill; cognate with Old English hǣl. See heal, wassail

Examples for hails

Why should she not hail with joy the story of a great and willing Helper?

Why call a taxi when you can hail a Lyft to pick up visiting family and friends?

Shall I crown you with our wild-wood coronal, and hail you queen of the forest?

They unleashed a hail of bullets to rival the final scene in ‘Bonnie and Clyde.’

The impulse that had prompted him to hail her now prompted wild words.

hail, happy hour, which shall put us in possession of our rest!

Victoria and Zoe Yin, who hail from Boston, were both deemed child prodigies at young ages.

He even went out like a movie villain: In 1993, Colombian forces killed Escobar in a hail of Scarface-esque gunfire.

The Colonel raised the handkerchief on the point of his sword and gave a hail.

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