Usually means: Empty or void inside; unfilled.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hollow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hollow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hollow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hollow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hollow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hollow, hollow: Wordnik
  7. Hollow, hollow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hollow: Wiktionary
  9. hollow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hollow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hollow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hollow: Dictionary.com
  13. hollow (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hollow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hollow (Alice in Chains song), Hollow (Pantera song), Hollow (Tori Kelly song), Hollow, The Hollow (TV series), The Hollow (album), The Hollow (disambiguation), The Hollow (play), The Hollow (series), The Hollow (song), The Hollow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hollow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hollow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hollow: Rhymezone
  19. hollow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hollow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hollow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hollow: Free Dictionary
  23. hollow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hollow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. hollow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hollow (disambiguation), hollow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hollow (disambiguation), Hollow (geography), hollow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hollow: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hollow (disambiguation), hollow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hollow: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hollow, hollow, hollow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hollow: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hollow: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See hollowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hollow)

noun:  (geography) A small valley between mountains.
noun:  A sunken area on a surface.
noun:  An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
noun:  (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
verb:  (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate
adjective:  (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
adjective:  (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
adjective:  (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
adjective:  (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
adjective:  Concave; gaunt; sunken.
adjective:  (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
adjective:  (oenology) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”)
adverb:  (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
verb:  To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.

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