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How to pronounce “hollow”
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Pronunciation guide for hollow
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of hollow with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
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that lived in a hollow tree where he played.
- Definition summary
- (geography) A small valley between mountains.
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How to pronounce hollow
How to Stop the Next Pandemic? Stop Deforestation
that lived in a hollow tree where he played.
Example Sentences
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (geography) A small valley between mountains.
- A sunken area on a surface.
- An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
- (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate
- [Adjective]
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
- (oenology) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
- [Adverb]
- (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
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