all hail

See also: all-hail

English

Interjection

all hail

1. All health; a phrase of salutation, welcome, or acclamation.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?

Translations

greeting

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 萬歲／万岁 (maan⁶ seoi³)

  Mandarin: 萬歲／万岁 (zh) (wànsuì)

• Japanese: 万歳 (ja) (banzai)
• Malay: dirgahayu
• Maori: whatu katoa
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• Polish: niech żyje (pl)
• Russian: да здравствует (ru) (da zdravstvujet), славься (slavʹsja), все приветствуют (vse privetstvujut)
• Turkish: selamlar olsun
• Uzbek: hamma doʻl (uz)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “all hail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)