bellow

¹

[ bel-oh ]

verb (used without object)

1. to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
2. to roar; bawl:

   bellowing with rage.

verb (used with object)

1. to utter in a loud deep voice:

   He bellowed his command across the room.

noun

1. an act or sound of bellowing.

Bellow

²

[ bel-oh ]

noun

1. Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.

Bellow

¹

/ ˈbɛləʊ /

noun

1. BellowSaul19152005MUSCanadianWRITING: novelist Saul . 1915–2005, US novelist, born in Canada. His works include Dangling Man (1944), The Adventures of Angie March (1954), Herzog (1964), Humboldt's Gift (1975), The Dean's December (1981), and Ravelstein (2000): Nobel prize for literature 1976

bellow

²

/ ˈbɛləʊ /

verb

1. intr to make a loud deep raucous cry like that of a bull; roar
2. to shout (something) unrestrainedly, as in anger or pain; bawl

noun

1. the characteristic noise of a bull
2. a loud deep sound, as of pain or anger

Derived Forms

• ˈbellower, noun

Other Words From

• bellow·er noun
• outbellow verb (used with object)

Word History and Origins

Origin of bellow¹

before 1000; Middle English belwen, akin to Old English bylgan to roar (compare for the vowel Old High German bullôn ); extended form akin to bell ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of bellow¹

C14: probably from Old English bylgan ; related to bellan to bell ²

Synonym Study

See cry.

Example Sentences

He may have been telling the truth when, on hearing that Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize, he remarked, “Never heard of him.”

From The Daily Beast

After years of failing to earn out his advances, Bellow was, as his biographer James Atlas has noted, suddenly a wealthy man.

From The Daily Beast

“He had fallen under a spell and was writing letters to everyone under the sun,” Bellow observes.

From The Daily Beast

That class of people has the natural tendency to regenerate according to Bellow.

From The Daily Beast

Bellow, see pictures of the volatile capital below and follow the evolving situation in Ukraine on The Daily Beast.

From The Daily Beast

Angry and excited, McAuliffe paced the narrow floor, his great voice booming forth like a bull's bellow.

From Project Gutenberg

With a bellow the cattle started forward at a lively gallop.

From Project Gutenberg

Those who do not really feel always pitch their expressions too high or too low, as deaf people bellow or speak in a whisper.

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By night the bull frogs, inconceivably big and tremendously vocal, bellow under the banks.

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Each season has its glory; if we can't hear the lark, let us listen to the bellow of a lion-comique.

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