Hallowed means made holy, and treated with deep respect. Hallowed ground, hallowed be thy name, a hallowed tradition.
Hallowed ground is consecrated burial ground, and the phrase carries into secular use for any place people treat as sacred, such as a famous stadium. Hallowe'en is the eve of All Hallows, the old word for the saints.
1adjectivehallowedMade holy, and treated with deep respect.
“The players walked out onto the hallowed turf of the old stadium for the final.”
hallowed is a quality of holiness.
Old English halgian, to make holy, from halig, holy. Hallow as a noun meant a saint.
Old English
ġehālgod — hallowed, sacred, sanctified
Middle English
halwed — hallowed, sacred, sanctified
English, today
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From Middle English halwed (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), from Old English ġehālgod (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), past participle of hālgian (“to hallow, make holy”). Equivalent to hallow + ed. More at hallow.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA