hollow

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   as if echoing in a hollow space

   the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom

2. 2
   noun

   a small valley between mountains

   I built myself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians.

3. 3
   noun

   a cavity or space in something

   hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks

4. 4
   verb

   remove the interior of

   hollow out a tree trunk

5. 5
   noun

   A small valley between mountains.

   He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.

6. 6
   noun

   A sunken area on a surface.

   the hollow of the hand

7. 7
   noun

   An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.

   a hollow in a tree trunk

8. 8
   noun

   A feeling of emptiness.

   a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach

Etymology

From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulhwą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.