blare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛə/
ipa: /blɛ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /bleː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /bleə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /bliə/
ipa: /bleɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /blɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: blair
homophone: Blair
homophone: blear (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: blur (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: blares
form: blaring
form: blared
form: blared
Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣren, from Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
Low German blaeren, blaren, blarren
Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren)
Senses: examples: text: In 2000, a robber held up a bank in San Diego, USA. It seems everyone held their noses rather than sticking their hands up because the man was so smelly! […] Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man.
ref: 2014, Nick Arnold, “Body Breakdowns and Recovery”, in Horrible Science: Body Owner’s Handbook, revised edition, London: Scholastic Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 159:
qualifier: Often followed by out
glosses: To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
examples: text: [T]he world, the world, / All ear and eye, with such a stupid heart / To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue / To blare its own interpretation— […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 196:
glosses: To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
examples: text: The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
text: [O]n plains, and under City-walls, innumerable regimental bands blare-off into the Inane, without note from us.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Mankind”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 49:
text: Blazon your mottos of blessing and prayer! / Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours! / Warble, O bugle, and trumpet, blare! / Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers!
ref: 1863 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “A Welcome to Alexandra. March 7, 1863.”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], published 1864, →OCLC, page 164:
text: France, even after 30 years of extraordinary synth, electro and urban pop, is still beaten with a stick marked "Johnny Hallyday" by otherwise sensible journalists. Songs that have taken Europe by storm, from the gloriously bleak Belgian disco of Stromae's Alors on Danse to Sexion d'Assaut's soulful Desole blare from cars everywhere between Lisbon and Lublin but run aground as soon as they hit Dover.
ref: 2011 December 14, Andrew Khan, “Music Blog: How Isolationist is British Pop?”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 May 2013:
glosses: To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
examples: text: And the kyne wente ſtraight waye vnto Beth Semes vpon one ſtreete, and wente on blearynge, and turned nether to the righte hande ner to the lefte.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, I. Kynges [1 Samuel] vj:[12], folio xxviij, recto, column 2:
text: The worthies alſo of Moab bleared and cried for very ſorow of their myndes: Wo is my hert for Moabs ſake.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Esay [Isaiah] xv:[4–5], folio vi, verso, column 2:
text: Behold, at eve, the herd returning home / From fruitful meads vvhere they have grazed their fill, / No longer in the ſtalls contain'd, they ruſh / VVith many a friſk abroad, and, blaring oft, / VVith one conſent all dance their dams around, […]
ref: 1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book X.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 236, lines 496–500:
qualifier: archaic except British
glosses: To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
Derived terms: ablare
blare out
Related terms: sense: to emit loud shouts or songs
word: belt
sense: to emit loud shouts or songs
word: belt out