hail

Noun

• enthusiastic greeting

• many objects thrown forcefully through the air
  • a hail of pebbles
    
  • a hail of bullets
    

• precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents

Verb

• precipitate as small ice particles
  • It hailed for an hour
    

• greet enthusiastically or joyfully

• call for
  • hail a cab
    

• be a native of
  • She hails from Kalamazoo
    

• praise vociferously
  • The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  herald , come , acclaim