RUMBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rumble mean? 

• RUMBLE (noun)
  The noun RUMBLE has 3 senses:

1. a loud low dull continuous noise

2. a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage

3. a fight between rival gangs of adolescents

  Familiarity information: RUMBLE used as a noun is uncommon.

• RUMBLE (verb)
  The verb RUMBLE has 2 senses:

1. make a low noise

2. to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds

  Familiarity information: RUMBLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUMBLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loud low dull continuous noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

grumble; grumbling; rumble; rumbling

Context example:

they heard the rumbling of thunder

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

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

Derivation:

rumble (to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds)

rumble (make a low noise)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

seat (any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit))

Holonyms ("rumble" is a part of...):

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A fight between rival gangs of adolescents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gang fight; rumble

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

combat; fight; fighting; scrap (the act of fighting; any contest or struggle)

• RUMBLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rumble    ... he / she / it rumbles   
Past simple: rumbled   
Past participle: rumbled   
-ing form: rumbling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a low noise

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

grumble; rumble

Context example:

rumbling thunder

Hypernyms (to "rumble" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence examples:

Cars rumble in the streets
The streets rumble with cars

Derivation:

rumble; rumbling (a loud low dull continuous noise)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

growl; grumble; rumble

Context example:

Stones grumbled down the cliff

Hypernyms (to "rumble" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

rumble; rumbling (a loud low dull continuous noise)

 Context examples 

Weedon Scott patted him, and his throat rumbled an acknowledging growl.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Hans staggered back against the wall, where he leaned, his face working, in his throat the deep and continuous rumble that died away with the seconds and at last ceased.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter.

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

We took a public coach, Tregellis, clapped the postillions into the rumble, and jumped on to their places.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It starts out as a rumble, like something heard underwater.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)

One of them gave a deep rumbling groan and dropped his huge squat head on to the earth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was now dark; but a rumbling of wheels was audible.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was a long rumble of sound, and it seemed to him that he was falling down a vast and interminable stairway.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Martian surface is extremely quiet, allowing SEIS, InSight's specially designed seismometer, to pick up faint rumbles.

(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)

Immense glaciers approached the road; I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche and marked the smoke of its passage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)