Halloween

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Hal·low·een, Hallowe'en /ˌhæləʊˈiːn◂ $ -loʊ-/ ●●● S3 noun [uncountable]  TMCthe night of October 31st, which is now celebrated by children, who dress in costumes and go from house to house asking for sweets, especially in the US and Canada. In the past, people believed the souls of dead people appeared on Halloween. 万圣节前夕〔10月31日之夜〕 → trick or treat

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Halloween• He left a box of matches and rags outside his Cardiff shop to make the fire look like a Halloween prank.• His face looks like a Halloween mask - fixed and rigid; a shiny mask all over his face.• He returned with a Man from Mullingar, a newsagent who wanted a Halloween witch to hang up in his shop.• Macnas will also be closing the festival during Halloween weekend with the outdoor Noah's Ark parade.• But he was taken last month to Bill Wightman's gallops on the lovely downland on which the great Halloween was trained.• His Halloween programme Ghostwatch so scared my children that I have had to sleep on a camp bed in their room.• We went two miles - not quite like Halloween perhaps but still not bad.• The Halloween night fight at London's Earls Court was hyped as the worst nightmare for one of the boxers.Origin Halloween (1700-1800) All Hallow Even “All Saints' Eve”; → HALLOWED

Hal·low·een nounChineseSyllable  

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Halloween
Hal‧low‧een , Hallowe'en /ˌhæləʊˈiːn◂ $ -loʊ-/ noun [uncountable]the night of October 31st, which is now celebrated by children, who dress in costumes and go from house to house asking for sweets, especially in the US and Canada. In the past, people believed the souls of dead people appeared on Halloween. ⇨ trick or treat

Hal·low·een (also Hal·low·e'en) BrE /ˌhæləʊˈiːn/ 🔊NAmE /ˌhæloʊˈiːn/ 🔊 noun [countable, uncountable] the night of 31st October when it was believed in the past that dead people appeared from their graves, and which is now celebrated in the US, Canada and Britain by children who dress as ghosts, witches, etc. 万圣节前夕（10 月 31 日晚，过去认为死人此时会从坟墓中走出来，如今儿童会装鬼玩闹）  ➡  see also trick or treat at trick noun