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aroar

adj
/əˈɹɔː(ɹ)/

Etymology

From a- + roar.

  1. derived from *rey-✻
  2. inherited from *rairōną✻
  3. inherited from *rairōn✻
  4. inherited from rārian — “to roar; wail; lament”
  5. inherited from roren
  6. prefixed as aroar — “a + roar”

Definitions

  1. Abounding with noise

    Abounding with noise; abounding with laughter.

    • Her quip set the dinner table aroar.
    • […] scarcely five minutes had passed since Captain Ransome’s guns had broken the truce of doubt before the whole region was aroar: the enemy had attacked nearly everywhere.
    • The great room, ordinarily aroar with life, was still and gloomy as a tomb.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA