Hail

Noun

 * 1) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.

Verb

 * 1)  Said of the weather when hail is falling.
 * They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
 * 1)  to send or release hail
 * The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
 * 1)  to greet
 * Hail Linzen
 * 1)  to praise enthusiastically
 * He was hailed as a hero.
 * 1)  to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of
 * Hail a taxi

Adjective

 * 1)  Healthy, whole, safe.

Adjectives for Hail
continuous; lashing; sonorous; pearly; suiphurous; incessant; cursing; dreadful.

Verbs for Hail
deluge with—; escape—; pour—; send down —; shower with—; volley—; —assails; — chills; —descends; —desolates; —falls; — pierces; —ravages; —shatters; —spatters; —stones; —tattoos; —whistles round.

Adverbs for Hail
exultingly; rapturously; imperatively; enthusiastically; resoundingly; boisterously; thunderously; obstreperously; vigorously.

Synonyms for Hail
call, address, salute, herald, accost, greet, compliment, summon, approach, welcome, honor, acclaim, applaud, cheer, entertain.

Antonyms for Hail
ignore, neglect, disregard, overlook, slight, scorn, spurn, disdain, shun, avoid, elude.

Derived terms

 * hail storm / hailstorm
 * hailstone
 * hail from

Thesaurus
a mass of, a world of, abide by, accede, accept, acclaim, accost, acknowledge, acquiesce, acquiesce in, address, agree, agree to, agree with, apostrophize, appeal to, applaud, approach, approve, army, assent, bark, barrage, bawl, beat the drum, bellow, bespeak, bevy, bid good day, bid good morning, bob, bombard, bombardment, bow, bow to, broadside, bunch, buttonhole, buy, call, call to, cannonade, caterwaul, cheer, cheer on, clap, clap the hands, cloud, clutter, compliment, comply, congratulate, consent, covey, cry, curtsy, dip, drumfire, embrace, encore, exchange colors, exchange greetings, felicitate, flag, flag down, flash, flight, flock, flocks, frost, fusillade, give a hand, give a signal, give the nod, glance, glorify, graupel, greet, greeting, hail and speak, hailstone, half-mast, halloo, hallow, hand-clasp, handshake, hear it for, hello, hive, hoist a banner, hold with, holler, hollo, honor, hoot, host, how-do-you-do, howl, hug, ice, ice over, ice up, in toto, invoke, jam, kick, kiss, kiss hands, large amount, laud, leer, legion, lift the hat, lots, make a sign, many, masses of, mob, muchness, multitude, nest, nod, nod assent, nod to, nudge, numbers, pack, pelt, plurality, poke, praise, pull the forelock, quantities, quite a few, raise a cry, receive, recommend, roar, root for, rout, ruck, salutation, salute, salvo, say hello, scores, scream, screech, shake, shake hands, shoal, shout, shower, shriek, sign, signal, signalize, sleet, smile, smile of recognition, snow, snow in, snow under, soft hail, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, speak, speak fair, speak to, squall, squawk, squeal, storm, subscribe to, swarm, take aside, take kindly to, talk to, throng, tidy sum, torrent, touch, touch the hat, uncover, unfurl a flag, volley, vote for, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, welcome, whoop, wink, worlds of, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yes, yield assent, yowl

Etymology 1
, from hægl:, from  (compare   hagal:,  hagl:), from a , , a reduplication of *k̑el- 'cold' (compare héla: 'frost').

Root-cognates outside of Germanic include   caill: 'testicle', Breton kell 'testicle', Latin calculus 'small stone',  šešélis 'shade, shadow',  κάχληξ: 'pebble', Sanskrit śíśira 'cool, cold'.

Etymology 2
The adjective hail is a variant of hale: (from the early 13th century). The transitive verb with the meaning "to salute" is also from the 13th century. The cognate verb heal is already Old English (hælan), from a Common Germanic noun *hailoz "health, quality of being whole". Also cognate is whole, from Old English hál (the spelling with wh- is unetymological, introduced in the 15th century).

Noun

 * Arabic: برد
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: kazkabar, txingor
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: calamarsa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Croatian: tuča
 * Czech: kroupy, krupobití
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: rahe
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: sarabia, pedrazo
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: haglél
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: terg, gijlok
 * Sorani: ته‌رزه‌


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: krusa
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: granissa, grella
 * Old High German: hagal
 * Persian: تگرگ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: grindină
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: clach-mheallain
 * Serbo-Croatian: туча, tuča,  град,  grad
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: toča
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: į̀ękǫ́ne
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük: gräl
 * !Xóõ: ǁgáã

Verb

 * Czech: padat kroupy
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: sataa rakeita
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: паѓа град
 * Norwegian: hagle


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: пада град
 * Roman: pada grad
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hagla
 * Volapük: grälön

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: saluti
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: поздравува


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: saluta
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: поздравити
 * Roman: pozdraviti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Chichewa:
 * Dutch:, lofprijzen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian: hylle
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ускликнути
 * Roman: uskliknuti
 * Spanish:


 * Czech: přivolat
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: