blare

Verb

1. (transitive) To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
3. (intransitive) To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
4. (dialectal, intransitive) To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A loud sound.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
3. (countable, dialectal, uncountable) A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/blɛə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: blaren

Inherited from Old English: *blǣren

Cognate with Dutch: blèren

Cognate with Low German: blaeren

Cognate with Middle High German: blêren

Cognate with German: plärren

In summary

The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣren, from Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
Low German blaeren, blaren, blarren
Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren)

Synonyms

clamor

din

blast

noise

sound

🔉

bellow

blare out

roar

clamour

howl

shout

uproar

blaring

yell

broadcast

claxon

beep

blow

yowl

cacophony

blat out

toot

trump

honk

ululate

hoot

play

pother

quest

ramp

rant

rave

resonate

reverberate

ring

💍

rumbling

screech

snarl

stridor

thunder

🌩️

ting

to-do

trumpet

🎺

wail

whine

yawp

yelp

yip

background

baldare