Hollow vs Haven - What's the difference?
hollow | haven |
(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
(of a sound) Distant]], eerie; echoing, [[reverberate, 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.
Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.
* Prior
* Tennyson
A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
(US) A sunken area.
(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
* Sir Walter Scott
A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 21
, author=Helen Pidd
, title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis
, work=the Guardian
As nouns the difference between hollow and haven
is that hollow is a small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations while haven is a harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.As verbs the difference between hollow and haven
is that hollow is to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive) or hollow can be to urge or call by shouting; to hollo while haven is to put into, or provide with a haven.As an adjective hollow
is (of something solid) having an empty space or cavity inside.As an adverb hollow
is (colloquial) completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.As an interjection hollow
is .hollow
English
Alternative forms
* hollerEtymology 1
(etyl) holw, holh, from (etyl) . More at cave.Adjective
(er)- a hollow''' tree; a '''hollow sphere
- a hollow moan
- (Dryden)
- a hollow victory
- a hollow promise
- With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
Derived terms
* hollow legAdverb
(-)Etymology 2
(etyl) holow, earlier holgh, from (etyl) . See above.Noun
(en noun)- Forests grew upon the barren hollows .
- I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
- He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
- the hollow of the hand or of a tree
- a hollow in the pit of one's stomach
Etymology 3
Compare holler.Verb
(en verb)- He has hollowed the hounds.
haven
English
Noun
(en noun)- what shipping and what lading's in our haven
- their haven under the hill
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