hollow
(geography) A small valley between mountains.
This road leads through a sandy hollow shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.
“What they’re saying,” she pressed on, “is that last night Voldemort turned up in Godric’s Hollow.
A sunken area on a surface.
An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
To make a hole in something; to excavate.
(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
(of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
(figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
(figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
Concave; gaunt; sunken.
(gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position.
(oenology) Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.
(colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
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