historythe word halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a scottish variant of the fuller all-hallows-even ("evening"), that is, the night before all hallows day
[4] although the phrase all hallows is found in old english (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), all-hallows-even is itself not attested until 1556
11 月 1 日 -- 万圣节 all saints' day万圣节（all saints' day, all hallow's day 或 hallowmas ） 是每年 11 月 1 日 的欧美大节日
halloween 是 all hallows eve 的缩写，万圣节前夜的意思，指 10 月 31 日的晚上
for thousands of years people have been celebrating different holidays and festivals at the end of october
the celts celebrated it as samhain （pronounced “sow-in”, with “sow” rhyming with cow ）
the irish english dictionary published by the irish texts society defines the word as follows:(1)(2)
