bellow
to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
to roar; bawl: bellowing with rage.
to utter in a loud deep voice: He bellowed his command across the room.
an act or sound of bellowing.
Origin of bellow
1synonym study For bellow
Other words from bellow
- bel·low·er, noun
- outbellow, verb (used with object)
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Other definitions for Bellow (2 of 2)
Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
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How to use bellow in a sentence
He may have been telling the truth when, on hearing that Saul bellow won the Nobel Prize, he remarked, “Never heard of him.”
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else | Allen Barra | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter years of failing to earn out his advances, bellow was, as his biographer James Atlas has noted, suddenly a wealthy man.
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Saul Bellow’s Masterpiece ‘Herzog’ Turns 50 In Great Form | Nicolaus Mills | April 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat class of people has the natural tendency to regenerate according to bellow.
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Angry and excited, McAuliffe paced the narrow floor, his great voice booming forth like a bull's bellow.
Menotah | Ernest G. HenhamWith a bellow the cattle started forward at a lively gallop.
The Pony Rider Boys in Texas | Frank Gee PatchinThose who do not really feel always pitch their expressions too high or too low, as deaf people bellow or speak in a whisper.
Leonora | Maria EdgeworthBy night the bull frogs, inconceivably big and tremendously vocal, bellow under the banks.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm | Irvin S. CobbEach season has its glory; if we can't hear the lark, let us listen to the bellow of a lion-comique.
In the Year of Jubilee | George Gissing
British Dictionary definitions for bellow (1 of 2)
/ (ˈbɛləʊ) /
(intr) to make a loud deep raucous cry like that of a bull; roar
to shout (something) unrestrainedly, as in anger or pain; bawl
the characteristic noise of a bull
a loud deep sound, as of pain or anger
Origin of bellow
1Derived forms of bellow
- bellower, noun
British Dictionary definitions for Bellow (2 of 2)
/ (ˈbɛləʊ) /
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
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