📖 hail

noun1 senses

1. enthusiastic greeting
2. many objects thrown forcefully through the air“a hail of pebbles”
3. precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents

verb2 senses

1. praise vociferously“The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein”
2. greet enthusiastically or joyfully
3. call for“hail a cab”
4. be a native of“She hails from Kalamazoo”

See also: acclaimheraldcome

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