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ROARING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does roaring mean?
• ROARING (noun)
The noun ROARING has 2 senses:
1. a deep prolonged loud noise
2. a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
Familiarity information: ROARING used as a noun is rare.
• ROARING (adjective)
The adjective ROARING has 1 sense:
1. very lively and profitable
Familiarity information: ROARING used as an adjective is very rare.
• ROARING (adverb)
The adverb ROARING has 1 sense:
1. extremely
Familiarity information: ROARING used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deep prolonged loud noise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("roaring" is a kind of...):
noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))
Derivation:
roar (make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
bellow; bellowing; holla; holler; hollering; hollo; holloa; roar; roaring; yowl
Context example:
his bellow filled the hallway
Hypernyms ("roaring" is a kind of...):
call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)
Derivation:
roar (utter words loudly and forcefully)
roar (emit long loud cries)
roar (make a loud noise, as of animal)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very lively and profitable
Synonyms:
booming; flourishing; palmy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving
Context example:
did a thriving business in orchids
Similar:
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely
Context example:
roaring drunk
Context examples
Always in front of us we heard the yelling and roaring which showed the direction of the pursuit.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A shout of admiration came from the spectators as they looked upon the fine lines of his figure, and I found myself roaring with the rest.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Flash floods, which can develop quickly, often have a dangerous wall of roaring water.
(Floods, Federal Emergency Management Agency)
Then away they hastened with her full of joy in their boat towards the ship; but soon came the dragon roaring behind them through the air; for he awoke and missed the princess.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Either there was a roaring in my ears or I heard afar off the howl of wolves.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
If the owner has lit a roaring fire in the fireplace, you’ll be all set for an enchanting Valentine’s Day evening.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Came days of storm, days and nights of storm, when the ocean menaced us with its roaring whiteness, and the wind smote our struggling boat with a Titan’s buffets.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Supermassive black holes draw gas and matter into a disk around them, heating the disk to roaring temperatures of millions of degrees and blasting out high-energy, visible, ultraviolet and X-ray light.
(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)
From below came the fatal roaring where the wild current went wilder and was rent in shreds and spray by the rocks which thrust through like the teeth of an enormous comb.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I can call to mind the day when you were as roaring a blade as ever called himself a free companion.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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