Roar
verbTo make a long, loud, deep sound, as a lion, a crowd, or an engine does.
How to spell roar
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce roar
What does roar mean?
- verbTo make a long, loud, deep sound, as a lion, a crowd, or an engine does.
- nounA long, loud, deep sound made by an animal, a crowd, or a machine.
Roar in a sentence
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verb
The lions roar at feeding time in the safari park.
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noun
The roar of the waterfall drowned out our conversation.
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verb
The engines roar as the plane began its takeoff run.
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noun
A sudden roar from the stands greeted the winning goal.
Where does roar come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
This word comes from the Old English verb rarian, which meant to bellow, wail, or cry out loudly. It belongs to a family of Germanic words built to imitate a deep, sustained sound, so it is essentially an echoic or onomatopoeic word: the spelling tries to capture the noise itself. Related forms appear in other West Germanic languages, such as the old Dutch reren and the German rohren, all sharing the same booming sense. Over the centuries the spelling settled on the 'oa' digraph, which is the trap, since the word is pronounced with a single drawn-out vowel that gives no clear hint of two letters. The sense broadened naturally from animal cries and human shouting to the noise of crowds, engines, fires, and the sea.
How the word is built
- roar (from Old English rarian: to roar, wail), single root word with no affixes
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