Halloweennoun [ C or U ]
also Hallowe'en uk/ˌhæl.əʊˈiːn/us/ˌhæl.oʊˈiːn/the night of 31 October when children dress in special clothes and people try to frighten each other
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Celebrations, parties & special occasions
- a night on the town idiom
- a/the gathering of the clans idiom
- afterparty
- April Fool's Day
- bachelor party
- fayre
- feast
- fest
- festival
- festive
- fundraiser
- New Year's Eve
- night
- nightclubbing
- nightlife
- occasion
- party planner
- prom
- rage
- rave
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Examples from literature
- Children love to wear funny clothes for Halloween!
- Now, Halloween is the children’s feast of candy!
- Now, Halloween is the second biggest commercial holiday of the year after Christmas.
- Samhain, or Halloween, was a harvest feast in Ireland and Scotland.
- So, stores and companies started to push the idea of Halloween.
- The biggest scary business of all, however, is Halloween.
- Today, children enjoy Halloween in many countries on the last night of October.