HUBBUB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hubbub mean? 

• HUBBUB (noun)
  The noun HUBBUB has 1 sense:

1. loud confused noise from many sources

  Familiarity information: HUBBUB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUBBUB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud confused noise from many sources

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

brouhaha; hubbub; katzenjammer; uproar

Hypernyms ("hubbub" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

 Context examples 

The hubbub within the chamber did not cease, however, but rather increased, with yells of: A moi, mes amis!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His dull eyes were shining, his parchment face was quivering with excitement, and his strange musical call rang out above all the hubbub.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For several days there had been a great hubbub in the village.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were close upon it when of a sudden there broke out a wild hubbub from a distant portion of the camp, with screams and war-cries and all the wild tumult of battle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke out from the stall which we had just left.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hubbub died down.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The hubbub of the betting had risen until it drowned all other sounds, men shouting their opinions from one side of the coach-house to the other, and waving their hands to attract attention, or as a sign that they had accepted a wager.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ford and Alleyne took their seats between Aylward and Black Simon, without their entrance checking in any degree the hubbub which was going on.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aylward's words were interrupted by an extraordinary hubbub which broke out that instant some little way down the street in the direction of the Priory.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)