roar
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (RP) enPR: rô, IPA: /ɹɔː/
- (America) enPR: rôr, IPA: /ɹɔɹ/
- (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: rōr, IPA: /ɹo(ː)ɹ/
- (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /ɹoə/
roar (roars, present participle roaring; past and past participle roared)
- (intransitive) To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
- Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief / Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
- To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
- The audience roared at his jokes.
- Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
- The lioness roared to scare off the hyenas.
- Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
- Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar.
- How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.
- (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
- (transitive) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
- This last action will roar thy infamy.
- To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
- It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
- To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
- (British Yorkshire, North Midlands, informal) to cry
- French: rugir, hurler
- German: brüllen
- Italian: ruggire
- Portuguese: uivar, rugir
- Russian: реве́ть
- Spanish: rugir
- French: s'esclaffer, rire aux éclats, rire à gorge déployée, éclater de rire, rire comme une baleine
- Italian: sganasciarsi dalle risate, sbellicarsi dalle risate
- French: rugir
- German: brüllen
- Italian: ruggire
- Portuguese: uivar, rugir
- Russian: рыча́ть
- Spanish: rugir, bramar
- French: rugir
roar (plural roars)
- A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
- The cry of the lion.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- The deep cry of the bull.
- A loud resounding noise.
- the roar of a motorbike
- 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:
- "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."
- A show of strength or character.
- French: rugissement
- Italian: ruggìto, ruggito
- Portuguese: rugido
- Russian: рык
- Spanish: rugido
- French: vrombissement
- Italian: rombo
- Russian: рёв
- Spanish: bramido
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