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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A large wave or swell of water.
  2. n. A great swell, surge, or undulating mass, as of smoke or sound.
  3. v. To surge or roll in billows.
  4. v. To swell out or bulge: sheets billowing in the breeze.
  5. v. To cause to billow: wind that billowed the sails.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A great wave or surge of the sea, occasioned usually by a violent wind: much used in figurative applications, and often, especially in the plural, as merely equivalent to wave: as, the billows of sorrow rolled over him.
  2. n. Synonyms See wave.
  3. To swell; rise and roll in large waves or surges.
  4. To raise in waves or billows.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
  2. v. To surge or roll in billows
  3. v. To swell out or bulge

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
  2. n. A great wave or flood of anything.
  3. v. To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a large sea wave
  2. v. become inflated
  3. v. move with great difficulty
  4. v. rise and move, as in waves or billows
  5. v. rise up as if in waves

Etymologies

  1. From Old Norse bylgja, from Proto-Germanic *bulgijōn. Cognates include Danish bølge, Middle High German bulga and Low German bulge. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Old Norse bylgja, a wave; see bhelgh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. surge
  1. undulate
  1. wave
  1. undulation
  1. swell

hypernyms (8)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. moving ridge
  1. wave
  1. locomote
  1. travel
  1. move
  1. go
  1. inflate
  1. blow up

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. swirl
  2. surf
  3. expanse
  4. tide
  1. torrent
  2. breaker
  3. ripple
  4. waterfall
  1. surge
  2. haze
  3. wisp
  4. plume
  1. cataract
  2. mist
  3. gust
  4. ocean
  1. streamer
  2. froth
  3. cascade
  4. drift
  1. sheen
  2. streak
  3. swell

rhymes (10)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Amarillo
  2. Camarillo
  1. Hermosillo
  2. Murillo
  1. armadillo
  2. caudillo
  1. cillo
  2. granillo
  1. pillow
  2. trillo

reverse dictionary (9)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. cloud
  1. wave
  1. decuman
  1. billowed
  1. billow
  1. wallow
  1. sea
  1. surge
  1. swell

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  1. a bridge carries us over the hollow land and strains
  2. hallowed
  3. on the final course
  1. from bellows that showed us behindhand the aged spires trailing the stalking horse: that breaks in our protest atop the willow
  2. that eternally bleeds before the swallow and sows us
  3. unbraid
  1. over billows and overflows as we cross the bridge to freedom
  2. walking slow
  3. and haul our eggs across the white snows and leave our hollow nests in this debris
  1. with wild decadence and the furrows snowy
  2. with artless oscars and poet marlowe
  3. to egg on a queen’s castle and express the seeing of the river down below
  1. and show a vision like the best
  2. and so
  3. blake’s grave
  1. we now know.

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  • thnzuh "She unzips her coverall all the way down below her navel. Underneath is naught but billowing pale flesh." (p. 53, Snow Crash) Dec 27, 2010

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