roar

Meaning

1. To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
2. To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
3. Of animals (especially a lion), to make a loud deep noise.
4. Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
5. To proceed vigorously.
6. To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
7. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
8. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
9. (informal) To cry.

bellow

howl

make noise

raise one’s voice

low rumble

loud voice

call loudly

long loud deep sounds

ontery

let out a roar

deafening noise

cry of any animal

utter a roar

laugh loudly

roar loudly

sound indistinctly

cry loudly

holler out

unpitched sound

articulate sound

laugh heartily

loud laughter

loud noise

loud sound

make a roaring noise

shout at

wamble

sound made by monsters

rumbling noise

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɔː/

From Middle English roren, raren, from Old English rārian (“to roar; wail; lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *rairōn, from Proto-Germanic *rairōną (“to bellow; roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to shout; bellow; yell; bark”), perhaps of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian roorje (“to roar”), German röhren (“to roar”).