roar
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English roren, raren, from Old English rārian (“to roar; wail; lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *rairōn, from Proto-Germanic *rairōną (“to bellow; roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to shout; bellow; yell; bark”), perhaps of imitative origin.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian roorje (“to roar”), German röhren (“to roar”).
Inflected forms:
form: roars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: roars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Sole on the barren ſands the ſuff'ring chief / Roar'd out for anguiſh, and indulg'd his grief.
gloss: To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
pos: verb
examples: The audience roared at his jokes.
gloss: Of animals (especially a lion), to make a loud deep noise.
pos: verb
examples: The lioness roared to scare off the hyenas.
Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
gloss: Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
pos: verb
examples: The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar.
How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.
gloss: To proceed vigorously.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: United's attempt to extend their unbeaten league sequence to 23 games this season looked to be in shreds as the Seasiders - managed by Ian Holloway - roared into a fully deserved two-goal lead at the interval.
gloss: To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This last action will roar thy infamy.
I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
gloss: To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
pos: verb
examples: It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
gloss: To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
pos: verb
gloss: To cry.
pos: verb
tags: Midlands
North
UK
Yorkshire
informal
examples: Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole a pig, and away he run!
The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,
And Tom went roaring down the street.
gloss: A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
pos: noun
gloss: The cry of the lion.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Tarzan could imagine how old Numa’s eyes were shining—how he was already sucking in his breath for the awful roar which would freeze his prey for the brief instant between the moment of the spring and the sinking of terrible fangs into splintering bones.
gloss: The deep cry of the bull.
pos: noun
gloss: A loud resounding noise.
pos: noun
examples: the roar of a motorbike
I stand amid the roar / Of a surf-tormented shore, / And I hold within my hand / Grains of the golden sand—
Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting.
gloss: A show of strength or character.
pos: noun
Related words: uproar
Derived words: aroar
die roaring
die roaring for a priest
hell-roaring
outroar
rip-roaring
roar ahead
roar away
roar back
roarer
roaring boy
roaring cat
roaring drunk
roaring forties
roaring game
roaring success
roarless
roar off
roar on
roar out
roarsome
roary
space roar
uproar
within a bull's roar
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: زَأَرَ
roman: zaʔara
lang: Arabic
word: هَرْهَرَ
roman: harhara
lang: Aramaic
word: ܢܗܡܬܐ
lang: Belarusian
word: раўці́
roman: rawcí
lang: Belarusian
word: ры́каць
roman: rýkacʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: рева
roman: reva
lang: Catalan
word: rugir
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 吼
roman: hǒu
lang: Danish
word: brøle
lang: Dutch
word: brullen
lang: Esperanto
word: rori
lang: Esperanto
word: muĝi
lang: Finnish
word: karjua
lang: Finnish
word: karjahtaa
lang: Finnish
word: karjaista
lang: French
word: rugir
lang: Galician
word: bruar
lang: Galician
word: bramar
lang: Galician
word: ruxir
lang: Georgian
word: ღრიალი
roman: ɣriali
lang: Georgian
word: ბრდღვენა
roman: brdɣvena
lang: Georgian
word: ღმუილი
roman: ɣmuili
lang: German
word: brüllen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐌾𐍉𐌽
roman: baljōn
lang: Greek
word: βρυχώμαι
roman: vrychómai
lang: Greek
word: βρυχιέμαι
roman: vrychiémai
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βρυχάομαι
roman: brukháomai
lang: Hawaiian
word: kūwō
lang: Hawaiian
word: kūō
lang: Hebrew
word: שָׁאַג
roman: sha'ág
lang: Ido
word: bramar
lang: Indonesian
word: mengaum
lang: Irish
word: búir
lang: Irish
word: géim
lang: Italian
word: ruggire
lang: Japanese
word: 吠える
roman: hoeru
lang: Latin
word: rudō
lang: Latvian
word: rēkt
lang: Malay
word: mengaum
lang: Māori
word: ngunguru
lang: Norwegian
word: brøle
lang: Occitan
word: rugir
lang: Occitan
word: bramar
lang: Persian
word: غرش
roman: ġorreš
lang: Polish
word: ryczeć
lang: Polish
word: zaryczeć
lang: Portuguese
word: uivar
lang: Portuguese
word: rugir
lang: Rarotongan
word: ngurunguru
lang: Romanian
word: rage
lang: Romanian
word: mugi
lang: Romanian
word: zbiera
lang: Russian
word: рыча́ть
roman: ryčátʹ
lang: Russian
word: реве́ть
roman: revétʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: рикати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rikati
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: ricaś
lang: Spanish
word: rugir
lang: Spanish
word: bramar
lang: Swedish
word: ryta
lang: Tahitian
word: ʻūʻuru
lang: Tahitian
word: ʻuʻuru
lang: Tongan
word: ngungulu
lang: Turkish
word: kükremek
lang: Ukrainian
word: рича́ти
roman: ryčáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: ревти́
roman: revtý
lang: Ukrainian
word: реві́ти
roman: revíty
lang: Vietnamese
word: gầm
lang: Walloon
word: groûler
lang: Welsh
word: rhuo
lang: Bulgarian
word: буча
roman: buča
lang: Finnish
word: jyristä
lang: French
word: rugir
lang: Galician
word: ruxir
lang: Ido
word: bramar
lang: Māori
word: wawā
lang: Māori
word: haruru
lang: Māori
word: pararā
lang: Māori
word: rarā