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all hail

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See also:all-hail

English

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WOTD – 19 July 2025

Etymology

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Theinterjection is derived fromMiddle Englishal-heil,al heyl(“used as a salutation when meeting someone: your health!, hello!”),^[1] fromal(“denoting totality”)^[2] +heil,heyl(“health, welfare; good fortune”,noun)^[3]:

Al is derived fromOld Englisheall, fromProto-West Germanic*all(“all”), fromProto-Germanic*allaz(“all; entire, whole”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₂el-(“beyond; other”).
Heil is fromOld Norseheill(“hale, healthy; whole”,adjective), fromProto-Germanic*hailaz(“hale, healthy; entire, whole”), fromProto-Indo-European*kéh₂ilos(“healthy; whole”)).^[4]

Thenoun is derived from the interjection.^[4]

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˌɔːl ˈheɪl/
(General American)IPA^(key): /ˌɔl ˈheɪl/,(cot–caught merger)/ˌɑl-/
Audio(General American): (file)
Rhymes:-eɪl

Interjection

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all hail(chiefly archaic except humorous)

Used as afriendly orrespectful salutation toacclaim,greet, orwelcome someone: (Iwish you)allhealth orgood fortune!
Synonym:(archaic or poetic)hail
- 1534 November, Willyam Tindale [i.e.,William Tyndale], transl.,The Newe Testament […] (Tyndale Bible), Antwerp: […] Marten Emperowr,The Gospell of S. Mathew xxviii:[8–9],folios xliiii, verso – xlv, recto:
  And as they[Mary Magdalene and "the other Mary"] went to tell his diſciples: beholde⸝Jeſus met them ſayinge:All hayle. And they came and held him by the fete ⁊ worſhipped him.
- 1557 December 13 (date written; Gregorian calendar),Virgil, “The Seuenth Booke”, inThomas Phaer, transl.,The Seuen First Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgill, Conuerted in Englishe Meter […], London: […] Ihon Kyngston, forRichard Jugge, […], published 7 June 1558 (Gregorian calendar),→OCLC,signature [S.iv.], recto:
  Alhayle O contrey myne by deſtnye due, / And youalhayll (ꝙ[quoth] he,) O Troian gods of promiſe true.
- c.1591–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene vii],page172, column 2:
  […]Iudas kiſt his maſter[Jesus], / And criedall haile, vvhen as he meant all harme.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance),William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene i],page39, column 2:
  Yet I vvell remember / The fauors of theſe men: vvere they not mine? / Did they not ſometime cry,All hayle to me? / SoIudas did toChriſt: but he in tvvelue, / Found truth in all, but one; I, in tvvelue thouſand, none.
- 1689,A[phra] Behn,A Congratulatory Poem to Her Sacred Majesty QueenMary, upon Her Arrival in England, London: […] R. E. for R. Bentley […], and W. Canning […],→OCLC,page 4:
  All Hail Illuſtrious Daughter of a King, / Shining vvithout, and Glorious all vvithin,[…]
- 1821,Lord Byron, “Cain, a Mystery”, inSardanapalus, a Tragedy; The Two Foscari, a Tragedy; Cain, a Mystery, London:John Murray, […],→OCLC, Act I, scene i,page341:
  GOD, the Eternal! Infinite! All-Wise!— / Who out of darkness on the deep didst make / Light on the waters with a word—all hail! /Jehovah, with returning light,all hail!
Chiefly followed byto(someone or something):used as a salutation toindicate that someone or something isrespected orwelcome.
- 1719,Thomas d’Urfey, compiler, “A New Song. The Good Fellow.”, inSongs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; […], volume IV, London: […] W. Pearson, forJ[acob] Tonson, […], published 19th century,→OCLC,page241:
  All Hail to the Days that merit more Praise, / Than all the rest of the Year; / And welcome the Nights that bringeth delights, / As well to the Poor as the Peer.

used as a friendly or respectful salutation to acclaim, greet, or welcome someone

Chinese:
Cantonese:萬歲 /万岁(maan⁶ seoi³)
Mandarin:萬歲 /万岁 (zh)(wànsuì)
Finnish:eläköön (fi)
French:vive (fr)
Japanese:万歳 (ja)(banzai)
Malay:dirgahayu
Maori:whatu katoa
Polish:niech żyje (pl)
Russian:да здравствует (ru)(da zdravstvujet),славься(slavʹsja),все приветствуют(vse privetstvujut)
Turkish:selamlar olsun
Uzbek:hamma doʻl (uz)

used as a salutation to indicate that someone or something is respected or welcome

Finnish:kunnia olkoon(+ genitive)
French:please add this translation if you can

Noun

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all hail (pluralall hails)

Asalutation of "all hail"(interjectionsense 1); hence, a salutationindicatingrespect orwelcome.
- [1589?], Cutbert Curry-knaue [pseudonym;Thomas Nashe], “To that Most Comicall and Conceited Caualeire Monsieur du Kempe, Iestmonger and Vice-gerent generall to the Ghost of Dicke Tarlton. His Louing Brother Cutbert Curry-knaue Sendeth Greeting.”, inAn Almond for a Parrat, or Cutbert Curry-knaues Almes. […],[London]: […] [Eliot’s Court Press],→OCLC,signature A2, recto:
  Brother Kempe, as manyalhailes to thy perſon as there be haicocks in Iuly at Pancredge:[…]
- 1603 (first performance),Ben[jamin] Jonson,Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, forThomas Thorpe, published1605,→OCLC, Act V,signature L3, verso:
  Take heede you be not laſt / To tender yourAll Hayle, in the vvide hall / Of hugeSeianus:[…]
- 1785,James Boswell, “Thursday, 26th August[1773]”, inThe Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, forCharles Dilly, […],→OCLC,page123:
  He[Samuel Johnson] then parodied theAll-hail of the vvitches to Macbeth, addreſſing himſelf to me.
- 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter X, inWoodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] forArchibald Constable and Co.; London:Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,→OCLC,page237:
  [H]e frequently repeated his welcomes andall-hails before he could be brought to attend to what that gentleman said in reply.
- 1867,Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Adirondacs. A Journal. Dedicated to My Fellow-travellers in August, 1858.”, inMay-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.:Ticknor and Fields,→OCLC,page61:
  [W]itness the muteall-hail / The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge / Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears / From a log-cabin streamBeethoven's notes / On the piano, played with master's hand.