hallamite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone with a connection to Hallamshire or modern-day Sheffield, especially
noun
Someone with a connection to Hallamshire or modern-day Sheffield, especially:
noun
Someone with a connection to Hallamshire or modern-day Sheffield, especially:
adj
In the style of a person named Hallam, especially
adj
In the style of a person named Hallam, especially:
adj
In the style of a person named Hallam, especially:
Example Sentences
- "An enthusiastic Caledonian will occasionally talk about "that part of Scotland called England;" so enthusiastic Hallamites would seem to look upon the great county of York as a mere appendage to their own dear Hallamshire."
- "The annual Congresses date from one held in Manchester, in Whitsun-week, 1868, and not from that held previously in Sheffield, although the Hallamites lay claim to the parentage of these annual assemblies."
- "[…]although Hallam borrowed three other players from Norton, the match was totally one-sided with the handful of Hallamites and their unlikely allies being completely outclassed."
- "We know our place (exactly), and we’re more than happy to laud it over the Hallamites."
- "This used to have the retro 90s reversed-out negative space look, with the slogan “Sharpens your thinking” which a Hallamite friend of mine pithily altered to “Sharpens your drinking”."
- "And when the young rebel Hallam gets to Paris, if he ever does, he is going to admit this rightness, if he only does it on some rainy day while sitting at the "Cupola" (the Dôme's latest rival), listening to some emancipated Hallamite artists tearing everything to pieces after too many Pernods."