hail, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

hail (hails 3rd person present) (hailing present participle) (hailed past tense & past participle )

1  verb If a person, event, or achievement is hailed as important or successful, they are praised publicly.
usu passive
Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation...  be V-ed as n
US magazines hailed her as the greatest rock'n'roll singer in the world...  V n as n

2 n-uncount Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky.
...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail.

3 verb When it hails, hail falls like rain from the sky.
It started to hail, huge great stones. it V

4 n-sing A hail of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force.
N of n
The victim was hit by a hail of bullets...

5 verb Someone who hails from a particular place was born there or lives there.
FORMAL I hail from Brighton... V from n

6 verb If you hail a taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere.
I hurried away to hail a taxi. V n