Roar

Definition: Roar

Roar

Noun

1. A deep prolonged loud noise.

2. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway".

3. The sound made by a lion.

Verb

1. Make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles; "The wind was howling in the trees"; "The water roared down the chute".

2. Utter words loudly and forcefully; "`Get out of here,' he roared.".

3. Emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity", "howl with sorrow".

4. Act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way: "desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town"-R.A.Billington.

5. Make a loud noise, as of animal; "The bull bellowed".

6. Laugh unrestrainedly and heartily.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Roar" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a famous spear".

Date "roar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

ROAR

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Roar

Amusement

Verb: amuse, entertain, divert, enliven; tickle the fancy; raise a smile, put in good humor; cause laughter, create laughter, occasion laughter, raise laughter, excite laughter, produce laughter, convulse with laughter; set the table in a roar, be the death of one.

Smile, simper, smirk; grin, grin like a Cheshire cat; mock, laugh in one's sleeve; laugh, laugh outright; giggle, titter, crow, snicker, chuckle, cackle; burst out, burst into a fit of laughter; shout, split, roar.

Shake one's sides, split one's sides, hold both one's sides; roar with laughter, die with laughter.

Giggle, titter, snicker, crow, cheer, chuckle, shout; horse laugh, belly laugh, hearty laugh; guffaw; burst of laughter, fit of laughter, shout of laughter, roar of laughter, peal of laughter; cachinnation; Kentish fire; tiger.

Courage

Phrase: one's blood being up; courage sans peur;fortes fortuna adjuvat; "have I not in my time heard lions roar "; " I dare do all that may become a man "; male vincetis sed vincite; omne solum forti patria; " self-trust is the essence of heroism "; stimulos dedit oemula virtus; " strong and great, a hero "; teloque animus proestantior omni; "there, is always safety in valor"; virtus ariete fortier.

Lamentation

Scream; (cry out); mew; (animal sounds); groan, moan, whine; roar; roar like a bull, bellow like a bull; cry out lustily, rend the air.

Violence

Explode, make a row, kick up a row; boil, boil over; fume, foam, come on like a lion, bluster, rage, roar, fly off the handle, go bananas, go ape, blow one's top, blow one's cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof; fly into a rage (anger).

Wit

Verb: joke, jest, crack a joke, make a joke, jape, cut jokes; perpetrate a joke; pun, perpetrate a pun; make fun of, make merry with; kid, kid around, fool around; set the table in a roar; (amuse).

Crosswords: Roar

Swedish (amuses).

Hear me roar. (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

My story starts at sea a perilous voyage to an unknown land a shipwreck the wild waters roar and heave the brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned all save one a lady whose soul is greater than the ocean and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

As the cars roar into Pennsylvania, the cradle of liberty, it seems apparent that our citizens are staying off the streets, which may make scoring particularly difficult, even with this year's rule changes (Death Race 2000; writing credit: Ib Melchior; Robert Thom)

You might as well, though - I have a mighty roar. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)

Because this isn't a convention weekend with your secretary, is it? Or -- or some broad that you picked up after three belts of booze. This is your great winter romance, isn't it? Your last roar of passion before you settle into your emeritus years (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

Roar until he cried (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera)

I am woman, hear me roar ("I Am Woman"; performing artist: Helen Reddy)

Listen to her howlin' roar (Danger Zone; performing artist: Kenny Loggins)

Set off the mighty mushroom roar (I Ain't Marching Anymore; performing artist: Phil Ochs)

And baby he's ready 2 roar ("1999"; performing artist: Prince)

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes, courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, "I'll try again tomorrow. (references; author: unknown)

Lion in the Roar (1956)

Roar of the Crowd (1953)

Busses Roar (1942)

Roar of the Press (1941)

The Lion's Roar (1928)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Final Roar (reference)

• Roar of Honor (Mechwarrior) (reference)

• The Lyon's Roar (The Lyon Saga) (reference)

• The Roar of Silence: Healing Powers of Breath, Tone & Music (Quest Books) (reference)

• The Roar on the Other Side: A Guide for Student Poets (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bull Roar (reference)

• MGM: When the Lion Roars, Vol. 1 - The Lion's Roar (reference)

• Monsters of Rock & Roar (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• ROCK N ROAR DINOSAURS (reference)

• The Roar Of The Greasepaint - The Smell Of The Crowd (1965 Original Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bloody Roar 3 (reference)

• Bloody Roar II (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Through ROAR - Rediscover Our American Roots -- students "read" rock art to learn the history of past peoples. Credit: UNknown.

ROAR on Saturday tour, kicked off the Multi-Cultural Tourism Program to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and National Indian Recognition Week. Program leaders of the Rediscover Our American Roots discuss the summit activities at the Bumble Bee Ranch. Credit: Unknown.

Four F9F-2 "Panther" jet fighters roar past the carrier, with dive brakes, landing gear and arresting hooks down, preparing to land on board after returning from a mission over North Korea, 23 June 1951. The planes and their pilots are from Fighter Squadron 721 (VF-721), a Naval Reserve squadron formerly based at Naval Air Station, Glenview, Illinois. Credit: NAVY.

Belay that! came a roar which brought us up short. Credit: Library of Congress.

Adrift in spite of rock and tempests roar ... / / Coffin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A rush and a roar.

It seems as if it were a speech of Danton, or a roar of Kleber

' And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full

It made a roar like a train at night

Spattering roar of ancient engines

Prospero: Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar That beasts shall tremble at thy din.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Whether it's the screech of a chain saw, the sudden blast of a hunting rifle, or the roar of a lawn mower, exposure to loud sounds can cause Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "roar": begin to roar ♦ roar at ♦ roar by ♦ roar of a canon ♦ roar of laughter ♦ roar off ♦ roar out ♦ roar out a song ♦ roar with laughter ♦ set the table in a roar. Additional references.

Beginning with "roar": roar-like, roar-shriek.

Ending with "roar": belly-roar.

Albanian

ulërimë (boom, howl, roaring, scream, screech, ululation, wow), hungërimë (growl, grunt, mutter), gjëmoj (brattle, drum, grumble, pound, resound, rumble, sing, thunder, whang), gjëmim (blare, boom, clap, grumble, peal, roaring, rumble, thunder, whang). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صخب (bustling, clamor, clamour, clatter, crash, furor, hubbub, hue and cry, hustle, mayhem, pandemonium, rattle, roister, rowdiness, rush, squash, stink, uproar, vociferate), ‏دوي (buzz, manual, noise, report, ringing, thunder), ‏شخير (snore, snort), ‏أز (boom, buzz, fizz, ping, sing, sizzle, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), ‏أزيز (drone, fizgig, humming, sizzle, wheeze, whir, whiz, whizz, zip, zoom), ‏جعجع (bawl, clamor, clamour, squawk), ‏جلبة (clamor, clamour, clatter, din, fanfare, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, noise, pandemonium, racket, tumult, uproar), ‏جلبة متواصلة, ‏خار (bellow), ‏بقاح الفيل, ‏صاح بأعلى صوت, ‏هدير (boom, brawler, plash, ripple, thunder), ‏ضجة (ado, botcher, bother, clutter, din, hullabaloo, hustle, noise, pother, racket, row, rumor, rumour, rumpus, sensation, shindy, sound, stir, storm, titbit, tumult), ‏عج (clamor, clamour, cry, shout, vociferate), ‏عجيج (clamor, clamour, din, uproar, yelling), ‏زئير, ‏زأر, ‏تنفس تنفسا صائتا, ‏قهقه (giggle, guffaw, hee haw, scream, snigger, squawk), ‏قهقهة (guffaw, hee haw, horselaugh), ‏هدر (boom, brawl, growl, plash, squandering, thud, thunder, waste, yell), ‏خوار (bell, bellow, bellowing, faint-hearted, low, moo, mooing). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смея се гръмогласно (scream, shriek), силен шум, рева (bark, bellow, blubber, cry, heehaw, hoot, pipe, squall, trumpet, yell), рев (bawl, bluster, cry, hoot, howl, rave, roan, roaring, squall, trumpet, yell), хъркам (snore), тътна (growl, mutter, resound, rumble), тътен (roaring, roll), гръмогласен смях (shrieks of laughter), гръмогласен вик, викане (hue, vociferation), викам (barrack, bawl, call, clamor, clamour, create, cry, holler, hollo, holloa, pop off, scream, shout, sing out, vocalize, vociferate, whoop, yell), бучене (hum, humming, ringing, thunder, zoom), изреваване, изревавам (squall, yell). (various references)

Chinese 

號 (cry, day of a month, name of a ship, number), 吼声, 吼 , 嗥 (bawl, howl, to bark), �"� (bark, pant), �'��"� (growl). (various references)

Czech

řvát (bawl, bellow, scream). (various references)

Dutch

loeien (bellow, bleat, howl, neigh), daveren (howl, thunder), bulderen (howl, thunder, yell), brullen (bellow, bleat, howl, neigh, yell). (various references)

Esperanto

muĝi (howl). (various references)

Faeroese

duna (howl, make a noise, murmur, mutter), buldra (howl), ýla (howl). (various references)

Farsi 

غریدن (Boom, Peal, Root, Rumble, Snort), غرش کردن , خروشیدن (Bubble, Rage), خروش (Cry, Slogan), دادکشیدن , دادزدن (Bawl, Cry, Root, Shout). (various references)

Finnish

ulvoa (howl), pauhata (rumble), möly (bawling), kohista (murmur, mutter), kohina (rush), kiljunta (yelling), kiljua (bray, yell), karjua (bawl), karjaista, jymy (din, rumble), ärjyntä, ärjyä (shout, yell). (various references)

French

mugir, gronder, beugler. (various references)

German

brausen (bluster, boil, boom, buzz, foam, howl, hum, humming, make a noise, pound, race, ring, roll, shower, storm, swoosh, thunder), sausen (bolt, buzz, fly, hare, howl, hurtle, speed, spin along, swish, tear, to bolt, to breeze, to swish, whistle, whiz, zoom), brüllen (bawl, bawl out, bellow, blare, blare out, bleat, boohoo, boom, holler, howl, neigh, scream, shout, snap out, squall, to roar, trumpet, yell). (various references)

Greek 

βρυχώμαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשאון (make a noise), לשאו�' (groan, shout), ל�"מות (hum, rage, shout), לרעום (fulminate, peal, rage, rumble, thunder), לר�'וש (rage), ל� �"ום (groan, growl, grumble), שא�'�" (groan, yell), �"מול�" (ado, bustle, commotion, din, fray, fussiness, hubbub, hurly burly, hustle, noise, tempest), צ�"ל�" (exultation, hilarity, joy, merriment, mirth, rejoicing, shouting), � �"ימ�" (cooing, growling, moaning, snarl), � �"ם (growling). (various references)

Hungarian

üvöltés (bellow, howl, roaring, ululation). (various references)

Indonesian

menggeru, mengaum, menderu (drone, howl), geruh (snoore), geru, deru (howl, large trucks, planes). (various references)

Italian

ruggire, muggire (bellow, howl, low, moo), ruggito. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鳴き声　 (cry), 鳴き声 (cry), 轟き (boomingbeating, peal, pounding, rumble, throbbing), 高鳴る (beating fast, throbbing), 雄叫び (war cry), 爆音 (explosion or detonation), �"�り (bellow, groan, growl, howl, sough), �'��"� (howl, yell). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たかなる (beating fast, throbbing), おたけび (war cry), おさけび (war cry), なき�"え (cry, crying voice), うなり (bellow, groan, growl, howl, sough), ばくお�" (explosion or detonation), ほう�"う (apprenticeship, aroma, balm, course, direction, emission of light, expulsion from school, fluctuation, fragrance, howl, muzzle, perfume, public duty, rambling, roaming, seamstress, service, tailor, variation, wandering, way, yell), とどろき (boomingbeating, peal, pounding, rumble, throbbing). (various references)

Korean 

포효 (roaring). (various references)

Manx

rooital (boom of thunder), rooit (growl, peal, report, rumble), garveigey (bellow, bellowing), garveig (bellow), buirrooghey (bellowing, boom, burst, burst of sound, growl, growling, low, roaring, rumble, thundering, thundering of sea, vociferate), buirroogh (bellow, growl, low, rumble, trumpet, trumpet of elephant). (various references)

Pig Latin

oarray.(various references)

Portuguese

rugir (bellow, growl, howl, rave), rugido (bellow, roaring, rut), mugir (bellow, bull, low, moo), bramir (bell, bellow, storm). (various references)

Romanian

rãcnet (howl, yell), râde cu hohote (guffaw, shriek with laughter), rãcni (howl, shout, yell), rãget (hee haw, howl, low), rage (bellow, Bray, howl, low), muget (bellow, bellowing, bluster, hoot, howl, low, moo), ţipãt (cry, hoot, outcry, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squawk, yell), bubui (bang, boom, peal, roll, rumble, thunder), bubuit (boom, peal, rumble, thundering), clocoti (boil, bubble, churn, Eddy, resound, ring, seethe, surge, whirl), detunãturã (blast, burst up, gun shot, report, thunder), dudui (whirr), fierbe (boil, bubble over, cook, effervesce, ferment, fizz, heat, poach, pot, rage, resound, seethe, simmer, torment, torture), forãi (snort), fremãta (Bate, bustle, fuss, murmur, rustle, sough), gâfâi (blow, gasp, pant, puff, wheeze), glas (chimes, key, ringing, sound, utterance, voice), mugi (bellow, howl, low, moo, trumpet), hohoti (guffaw), urlet (howl, roaring, yell, yowl), ţipa (bawl, call, cry, honk, hoop, hoot, pipe, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, squeal, yell), vuiet (din, hubbub, hum, noise, roaring, rumble, sough), zbiera (bawl, bellow, bluster, Bray, cry, cry out), vui (boom, hum, rumble), vociferare (ado, shouts, uproar), vocifera (clamor, clamour, shout, vocalize, vociferate), sfârâi (buzz, chirp, hum, sizzle, sputter), sfârâit (sizzling), striga (bark out, bawl, bellow, brawl, break, call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cry cherries, cry out, ejaculate, hail, hallo, halloo, hollo, hoop, howl, page, scream, screech, shout, shriek, shriek out, squall, vociferate, yell), strigãt (bawl, call, calling, cry, ejaculation, halloo, hoop, hoot, hue, outcry, roaring, scream, shout, shriek, squall, yell), trãsni (fulminate, hit, thunder), urla (bluster, call, cry, hoot, howl, rage, rave, set up a howl, squall, wail, yell, yowl), hohote. (various references)

Russian 

реветь рев (howl), рев (blubber, howl, rave), раскат (peal, reverberation), хохот (belly laugh, horselaugh). (various references)

Scottish

réic, r� n (cry out, loud cry), nuall (howl, lowing of cattle), beuc (bellow), bùirean (a bellow), bùir, bùirich, bùb. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rikati, rika (bellow), zagrmeti (thunder), urlikati (howl, yowl), urlik (bellow, howl, yowl), tutnjava (rumble), tutnjati (rumble), prolomiti se (pierce), gruvati (boom), gruvanje (rumble), grmljavina (thunder), grmeti (thunder), bučati (boom). (various references)

Spanish

rugido (bellow, rave, raving, roaring), bramar (bell, bellow, bluster, howl, rage, storm). (various references)

Swedish

råma (bellow, bleat, howl, moo, neigh), vråla (bawl, bellow, howl, yell), vrål (bellow, howl, yell), skrika (call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, jay, scream, screaming, shout, shriek, shrill, squall, squeal, vociferate, whoop, yawp), ryta (bellow, shout), dån (ado, boom, brattle, din, hemp nettle, noise, rumble, thunder), brusa (Bicker, hum, murmur, peal, rush, sough, swell). (various references)

Thai

เสียงคำราม, เสียงครึกโครม, ส่งเสียงครึกโครม, การแผ�"เสียง, การหัวเราะลั่น (guffaw), หัวเราะลั่น (guffaw), คำราม (gnarl, grumble). (various references)

Turkish

uğultu (boom, buzzing, clatter, howl, hum, humming, ping, roaring, singing, sough), uğuldamak (boom, buzz, howl, hum, murmur, ping, scream, sing, sough, whistle), uğuldama (humming, roaring, sough, whistling), kükremek, kükreme (roaring), haykırmak (bawl, burst in, burst out, call to, cry, cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, rumble, rumble out, scream, shout, shout out, spit, whoop, yell), hırıltılı solumak (snuffle), gürlemek (boom, din, growl, grumble, peal, rumble, rumble out, thunder), gürleme (booming, clap, grumble, peal, roaring, rolling, rumble, thundering), gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, crash, din, discord, dustup, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter), bağırmak (bark, bark at, bawl, bell, bellow, call, cry, ejaculate, exclaim, holler, hollo, holloa, hoop, hoot, howl, scream, shout, shout at, shout out, sing out, troat, trumpet, whoop, yell), bağıra çağıra söylemek. (various references)

Turkmen 

mцссьrmek, gьrrьldemek (thunder), gьmmьrdemek (thunder), gьbьrdemek (thunder). (various references)

Ukrainian

регіт (cackle, laugh, laughter, yak), ревти (bell, bellow, chide, low), рев, шуміти (bluster, chide, clamor, clamour, clutter, crack, din, horse about, horse around, noise, racket, whir, whirr), гуркіт (alarm, brattle, clatter, crash, detonation, din, drumming, growl, noise, peal, racquet, thunder, thunder-clap, wallop), лементувати (outcry, yammer), лемент (wail, yammer). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng rống tiếng ầm ầm tiếng la hét, tiếng om sòm (bobbery, charivari, din, noise), tiếng gầm (growl), tiếng cười phá lên. (various references)

Welsh

rhuo (bellow, bluster), rhuad (roaring), bugunad (bellow, bellowing). (various references)

mu. (various references)

boem, bove, bovem, boves, bovesque, bovi, bovinari, bovis, clamor, clamore, clamorem, clamoremque, clamores, clamoribus, clamoris, effrem, efrem, fremebant, fremebit, fremens, frementis, fremet, fremitu, fremitum, fremitus, fremuerunt, fremuit, increpa, increpabant, increpabat, increpabit, increpabo, increpandum, increpans, increpantibus, increpare, increparet, increpasti, increpat, increpaveris, increpaverunt, increpavit, increpem, increpet, increpueris, increpuerit, increpui, increpuisti, increpuit, latro, mugio, murmurabant, murmurabit, murmurantem, murmurantes, murmurantium, murmurare, murmurarent, murmurastis, murmurat, murmurati, murmuratores, murmuraveritis, murmuraverunt, murmuravit, murmuretis, rudis, rudo, rugiat, rugiebam, rugiemus, rugiens, rugient, rugientes, rugientibus, rugierunt, rugiet, rugit, rugitu, rugitus, rugiunt. (various references)

grymetian, hlimman. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "roar": roared, roarer, roarers, roaring, roaringly, roarings, roars. (additional references)

Words ending with "roar": outroar, uproar. (additional references)

Words containing "roar": outroared, outroaring, outroars, uproarious, uproariously, uproariousness, uproariousnesses, uproars. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Roar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: droar, Drotar, froar, joar, kronar, orare, orary, Orgar, Orkar, oror, orra, proar, raargh, rao, Raob, raoh, rar, rarf, Rarx, Ravar, reour, rer, riar, riarr, rior, rizar, roa, roab, roae, Roaf, roaj, roal, roap, roare, Roat, roatra, roax, rodar, roer, rogare, rogari, Rogart, rohr, roir, romary, roor, Ror, Rora, Rorc, rork, rorl, rort, rotar, rotart, Rotaru, Rouart, roure, rovary, Rowark, Royat, roza, rtoa, Ruairi, ruar, Ruark, ruiari, Ruiru, runar, ruoru, Rur, rurar, ryar, Troarn, trocar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: orra.

-1 letter: oar, ora.

-2 letters: ar, or.

+1 letter: arbor, ardor, armor, arrow, razor, roars.

+2 letters: adorer, arbors, arbour, ardors, ardour, armors, armory, armour, arroba, arrows, arrowy, arroyo, aurora, barrio, barrow, carrom, carrot, charro, corral, farrow, garron, harbor, harrow, horary, karroo, marron, marrow, mortar, narrow, orator, orfray, ourari, parlor, parrot, prowar, ramrod, rancor, raptor, razors, remora, roamer, roared, roarer, rosary, rostra, rotary, sartor, soarer, trocar, uproar, yarrow.