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BELLOW

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

Example:

his bellow filled the hallway

Synonyms:

bellow; bellowing; holla; holler; hollering; hollo; holloa; roar; roaring; yowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bellow" is a kind of...):

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

Derivation:

bellow (shout loudly and without restraint)

bellow (make a loud noise, as of animal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005)

Synonyms:

Bellow; Saul Bellow; Solomon Bellow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shout loudly and without restraint

Synonyms:

bawl; bellow

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "bellow" is one way to...):

shout (utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bellow; bellowing (a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a loud noise, as of animal

Example:

The bull bellowed

Synonyms:

bellow; roar

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "bellow" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence examples:

You can hear animals bellow in the meadows

The meadows bellow with animals

Derivation:

bellow; bellowing (a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal))

Credits

 Context examples: 

For days and nights he bellowed his rage at the universe.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The beast began to roar and bellow, till all the birds of the wood flew away for fright; but the horse let him sing on, and made his way quietly over the fields to his master’s house.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And yet when he say things that touch my husband-heart to the quick, and make my father-heart yearn to him as to no other man—not even to you, friend John, for we are more level in experiences than father and son—yet even at such moment King Laugh he come to me and shout and bellow in my ear, 'Here I am! here I am!' till the blood come dance back and bring some of the sunshine that he carry with him to my cheek.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I say it ain't likely, in a man who knows his wind will go, when it DOES go, as if a pair of bellows was cut open; and that man a grandfather, said Mr. Omer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had a large pair of bellows, with a long slender muzzle of ivory: this he conveyed eight inches up the anus, and drawing in the wind, he affirmed he could make the guts as lank as a dried bladder.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was from them that the great bellowing went up.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The whirl of the two bodies had already started, and still roaring, or bellowing, he pursued this whirl down the room, overtaking it when it fell to the floor.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Hush that bull's bellowing!” cried Sir Nigel impatiently.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The stragglers who had dotted the grass had closed in until the huge crowd was one unit with a single mighty voice, which was already beginning to bellow its impatience.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)