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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot

Meaning of "roar" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ROAR

Old English rārian; related to Old High German rērēn, Middle Dutch reren.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ROAR

roar  [rɔː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Roar is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb roar in English.

WHAT DOES ROAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Roar

Roar may refer to: ▪ Roar, a sound produced by certain animals ▪ Roar!, the King's College London student newspaper ▪ The Roar, a 2008 novel by Emma Clayton ▪ Brisbane Roar FC, an Australian football club ▪ Roar, two roller coasters at Six Flags America and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom ROAR may refer to: ▪ Radio Operated Auto Racing, the sanctioning body of competitive radio controlled car racing in the United States and Canada ▪ ROAR Registry of Open Access Repositories, an index and search engine for open-access institutional repositories ▪ Restore Our Alienated Rights, a Boston organization formed to oppose desegregation busing ▪ Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana Movement, a political party in Guyana, allied with the Guyana Action Party ▪ Reach Out and Read, an American organization that advocates for childhood literacy...

Definition of roar in the English dictionary

The first definition of roar in the dictionary is to utter characteristic loud growling cries. Other definition of roar is to utter with a loud deep cry, as in anger or triumph. Roar is also to laugh in a loud hearty unrestrained manner.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ROAR

PRESENT

Present
I roar
you roar
he/she/it roars
we roar
you roar
they roar
Present continuous
I am roaring
you are roaring
he/she/it is roaring
we are roaring
you are roaring
they are roaring
Present perfect
I have roared
you have roared
he/she/it has roared
we have roared
you have roared
they have roared
Present perfect continuous
I have been roaring
you have been roaring
he/she/it has been roaring
we have been roaring
you have been roaring
they have been roaring
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I roared
you roared
he/she/it roared
we roared
you roared
they roared
Past continuous
I was roaring
you were roaring
he/she/it was roaring
we were roaring
you were roaring
they were roaring
Past perfect
I had roared
you had roared
he/she/it had roared
we had roared
you had roared
they had roared
Past perfect continuous
I had been roaring
you had been roaring
he/she/it had been roaring
we had been roaring
you had been roaring
they had been roaring
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will roar
you will roar
he/she/it will roar
we will roar
you will roar
they will roar
Future continuous
I will be roaring
you will be roaring
he/she/it will be roaring
we will be roaring
you will be roaring
they will be roaring
Future perfect
I will have roared
you will have roared
he/she/it will have roared
we will have roared
you will have roared
they will have roared
Future perfect continuous
I will have been roaring
you will have been roaring
he/she/it will have been roaring
we will have been roaring
you will have been roaring
they will have been roaring
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would roar
you would roar
he/she/it would roar
we would roar
you would roar
they would roar
Conditional continuous
I would be roaring
you would be roaring
he/she/it would be roaring
we would be roaring
you would be roaring
they would be roaring
Conditional perfect
I would have roar
you would have roar
he/she/it would have roar
we would have roar
you would have roar
they would have roar
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been roaring
you would have been roaring
he/she/it would have been roaring
we would have been roaring
you would have been roaring
they would have been roaring
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you roar
we let´s roar
you roar
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to roar
Past participle
roared
Present Participle
roaring
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROAR

roadwork
roadworks
roadworthies
roadworthiness
roadworthy
roam
roamer
roaming
roan
Roanoke Island
roar up
roarer
roaring
roaring days
Roaring Forties
Roaring Twenties
roaringly
roarming
roary
roast

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROAR

bezoar
boar
bow oar
Calydonian boar
easy-oar
Erymanthian boar
hoar
oar
outroar
outsoar
pair-oar
phwoar
soar
uproar
upsoar
voar
wild boar

Synonyms and antonyms of roar in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ROAR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «roar» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of roar

Translation of «roar» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROAR

Find out the translation of roar to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of roar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «roar» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 呼啸疾驰
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pasar ruidosamente
570 millions of speakers

English

roar
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दहाड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هدير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

рев
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rugir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গর্জন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

passer en vrombissant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Roar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

heulen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ごう音を立てて走る
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

굉음을 내며 가다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Roar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kêu la
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கர்ஜனை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गर्जना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kükreme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

passare rombando
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ryk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рев
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hohote
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βρυχηθμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

brul
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dån
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

brøl
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of roar

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROAR»

The term «roar» is very widely used and occupies the 16.390 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROAR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «roar» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «roar» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about roar

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10 QUOTES WITH «ROAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word roar.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
2
Lord Byron
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
3
Sean Combs
I've always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.
4
Roald Dahl
The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.
5
Richard Harding Davis
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
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David Duval
I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.
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George Eliot
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
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Peter Garrett
As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.
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Nhat Hanh
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
10
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROAR»

Discover the use of roar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to roar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Roar
In a world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall keeps out plague-ridden animals, Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the danger.
Emma Clayton, 2012
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The Roar
Living behind walls they believe keeps them safe from the animals outside, Mika and Ellie discover a harsh reality when one suddenly vanishes and the sinister truth about their concrete world is suddenly revealed.
Emma Clayton, 2009
3
Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear
Run to the Roar is the story of a coach who succeeds in recruiting young men from around the world, getting them to work as a team, managing personalities, calming egos, and encouraging daily effort and focus under pressure.
Paul Assaiante, James Zug, 2010
4
Roar!
Text and pictures describe the things which different kinds of animals like to do.
Margaret Mayo, 2007
5
Wake Up and Roar
''The Self contains everything, '' teaches Papaji. ''There is nothing apart from it. This is why you can call it emptiness. There is nothing beyond emptiness.
Papaji H. W. L Poonja, 2010
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Roar!
As she spends the day with her mother reading, playing, doing chores, and eating, Lotte imagines that she is various animals, including a monkey, a bear, a lion, and a crocodile.
‎2002
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Roar!: A Christian Family Guide to the Chronicles of Narnia
That’s why Roar! takes your family on a one-of-a-kind adventure through every chapter in all seven books!* Peek inside to find: • Interactive features like “Wisdom for Narniacs,” “Kid Test,” “Let’s Talk About It,” “Grown ...
Heather Kopp, David Kopp, 2010
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Roar!: Bindi Wildlife Adventures
Bindi and her family are on their way to the jungle to collect three cute tiger cubs to take back to Australia Zoo.
Bindi Irwin, Jess Black, 2011
9
Courage Doesn’t Always Roar
This little book is a winning combination of original art and hand-lettered words created to celebrate accomplishments and inspire courage. "Courage does not always roar. . ." is the all-time best-selling Mary Anne Radmacher art poster.
Mary Anne Radmacher, 2009
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Roar and Liv
Poignant and powerful, Roar and Liv is a love story that will "capture your imagination and your heart." (Justine on Under the Never Sky)
Veronica Rossi, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term roar is used in the context of the following news items.
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Brisbane Roar v Liverpool: pre-season friendly – as it happened
Still, Brendan Rodgers wouldn't have enjoyed watching the Roar take that early lead, and you feel there might be a few players doing extra hill sprints next ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
No more 'roar' as famed trading pits come to an end
That roar will soon go silent. On Monday, most futures pits in Chicago and New York, where frenzied buying and selling once helped set prices on cattle and ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
3
Adelaide United steal late 2-1 win over Brisbane Roar in dramatic A …
Adelaide United substitute Awer Mabil has knocked defending champions Brisbane Roar out of the A-League finals in the Reds' 2-1 victory on Friday night. «ABC Online, May 15»
4
Brisbane Roar target Auckland City mentor Ramon Tribulietx for …
The Courier-Mail has been told that Roar football director Ken Stead visited New Zealand last month to interview Tribulietx, who is currently in Fiji, where his ... «Courier Mail, Apr 15»
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Fifty Shades of Grrrrrr: The insane story of Roar
As the production of Roar involved lions, tigers, and other dangerous animals, it is unsurprising to learn that people were injured during the production. But 70 ... «Entertainment Weekly, Apr 15»
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Officials call off Brisbane Roar - Wellington Phoenix match due to …
Wellington Phoenix have underlined their A-League title credentials, moving four points clear on top after a 2-1 win over Brisbane Roar in a controversially ... «ABC Online, Mar 15»
7
Western Sydney Wanderers v Brisbane Roar: A-League streaming …
Tonight sees Western Sydney Wanderers and Brisbane Roar play their round four clash - delayed due to the Wanderers' ACL commitments - as last season's ... «ABC Online, Dec 14»
8
Thijssen takes Roar reins as Mulvey is axed
Former Netherlands international Frans Thijssen has been installed as Brisbane Roar's interim head coach after the club confirmed the sacking of Mike Mulvey ... «SBS - The World Game, Nov 14»
9
Robert Plant: lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar
The Ceaseless Roar, Robert Plant's 10th solo album, are endless. Made with the aptly named Sensational Space Shifters, the musicians merge and converge in ... «Paste Magazine, Sep 14»
10
Girl who beat cancer "roars" into her own Katy Perry-style music video
With the help of Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic, Addy starred in her own version of Katy Perry's "Roar." The video debuted Monday and quickly racked up more than ... «CBS News, May 14»

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