Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British Variant of furor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as furor.
Wiktionary
- n. uproar; enthusiastic anger.
- n. excitement or commotion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sudden outburst (as of protest)
- n. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
Etymologies
- Italian, from Latin furor, frenzy; see furor.
Examples
“The convicted racist and public funding parasite behind the furore is one Ruggie Johnson of The Monitoring Group North.”
“Create more of a divide between Scotland and England/Wales and the resultant furore is further evidence of the growing and tangible fractures.”
“After quoting this, Gary goes on to say how he thinks some of the furore is missing the point:”
“But still, the song’s power to invoke a furore is still there – not so long ago a school banned Imagine in case the students all decided to gang up and, um, imagine they didn’t have any stuff.”
“What has caused a bit more of a furore is the use of a sequence which is nearly identical to some well-known camcorder footage of the Twin Towers coming down: a skyscraper collapses, the wall of dust and debris shoots down the street, our characters take cover in a nearby store, and then emerge onto the dust-enshrouded street.”
“No, this isn't referring to the furore over the re-election of Sepp Blatter to the presidency of Fifa.”
“Carberry, recalling the furore that erupted when his colleague MP Judith David-Blair spoke about the President, questioned whether he was within line to quote what the President said in the LCDS before he read sections from the document.”
“The furore is another blow to the Jets, who were on the brink of collapse before”
“England under-21 boss Stuart Pearce has given his backing to under fire John Terry, calling the furore surrounding his private life a "witch hunt".”
“The entire Churchill team was offloaded in Mumbai due to the in-flight ruckus but Alemao insisted that the furore was the creation of the flight crew.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘furore’.
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Vocab
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