2013年11月12日 · The term hail from is a phrasal verb (hail from) have one’s home or origins in (a place): they hail from Turkey. It is almost always used in its exact form. While from where I hail would probably be understood by most, it would seem odd to most native

2011年5月25日 · hail verb 1. [trans.] call out to (someone) to attract attention: the crew hailed a fishing boat. 2. signal (an approaching taxicab) to stop: she raised her hand to hail a cab. The Archaic usage is signalled as follows: exclamation archaic expressing greeting or acclaim: "hail, Caesar!" Considering this, we can say that "Hail to the King!"

"Hail" has meaning to praise, to greet. But replacing this words doesn't seem to fit well like "praise the king" , "greet the king". I want some words (or phrases ) which might fit well and sound good too. :) Edit1 : I haven't done intense research on this word.

Hail "to call from a distance," 1560s, originally nautical, from hail (interj.). Related: Hailed; hailing. Hail fellow well met is 1580s, from a familiar greeting. Hail Mary (c.1300) is the angelic salutation (L. ave Maria), cf. Luke i.58, used as a devotional recitation. As a desperation play in U.S. football, attested by 1940.

2016年4月3日 · Oxford Learners dictionary (American English) says hail from is formal. link. Oxford dictionary doesn't stipulate. link. The OED does not mark the phrasal verb as formal–or archaic (contra the well-received comment to this post). So is hail from actually or even necessarily formal, in some or any dialects of English?

2015年5月7日 · Hail the HERO! Hail the KING! In contrast, the first instance of "Hail to the King" in a Google Books search is from 1849. Still, neither expression is at all common until the middle of the nineteenth century, when "Hail to the King" enjoys an …

2011年9月10日 · Hal / Hail. Disclaimer: no evidence that these words were used in America. What follows is more like an interesting note on the history of greetings in English: The book Speech acts in the history of English dedicates an entire chapter to greetings in English language history.

Hail-fellow-well-met can be traced back to the same time: 1580s, from a familiar greeting. as @HaL's answer explains further. As for "Well met," it's used as a greeting in writing at least through the early 1900s - L. Frank Baum uses it, for example. (In this case it's used as a greeting to a new person - as today we would use nice to meet you ...

2012年12月13日 · This would lead to 10 Glory Be's and 7 Hail Mary's. Assuming that the use of excerpt-as-a-title is considered a close enough modelling of the use of word-as-a-word. Assuming that the use of excerpt-as-a-title is considered a close enough modelling of …

2015年10月1日 · Not is a negative adverb; no is a negative quantifier; non- is a negative prefix. Since negation is so important, thousands of idioms use each of these, among other negatives.