all hail

See also: all-hail

English

Interjection

all hail

1. All health; a phrase of salutation, welcome, or acclamation.
   • c. 1595 William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act IV, scene i:

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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)