hollow

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Having an empty space inside; not solid.

   The squirrel made its home in a hollow tree.

2. 2
   noun

   An empty space or hole inside something solid.

   The owl nested in a hollow in the tree trunk.

3. 3
   verb

   To remove the inside of something to make it empty.

   They hollowed out a log to make a simple boat.

4. 4
   adj

   Sounding empty, as if echoing in an empty space.

   His footsteps made a hollow sound in the empty hall.

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.

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