hail

hail is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
2. intransitive verb. To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
3. transitive verb. To pour forcibly down, as hail.
4. adjective. Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
5. transitive verb. To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
6. transitive verb. To name; to designate; to call.
7. intransitive verb. To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.
8. intransitive verb. To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from.
9. transitive verb. An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
10. noun. A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.
11. noun. enthusiastic greeting
12. noun. many objects thrown forcefully through the air

    "a hail of pebbles"

    "a hail of bullets"

13. noun. precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
14. verb. praise vociferously

    "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"

    Synonyms: acclaim, herald

15. verb. greet enthusiastically or joyfully

    Synonyms: herald

16. verb. call for

    "hail a cab"

17. verb. be a native of

    "She hails from Kalamazoo"

    Synonyms: come

18. verb. precipitate as small ice particles

    "It hailed for an hour"

Synonyms

acclaim, herald, come

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hail:

hila

Common word forms

hails, hailed, hailer, hailes, hailing

Words from these letters

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