Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Very lively or successful; thriving: a roaring trade.
- adj. Used as an intensive: roaring drunk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A loud, deep cry, as of a lion; an outcry of distress, anger, applause, boisterous mirth, or the like; loud continued sound, as of the billows of the sea or of a tempest.
- n. A disease of horses which causes them to make a singular noise in breathing under exertion; the act of making the noise so caused; also, this noise. The disease is due to paralysis and wasting of certain laryngeal muscles, usually of the left side; this results in a narrowing of the glottis, giving rise to an unnatural inspiratory sound, manifested chiefly under exertion.
- Making or characterized by a noise or disturbance; disorderly; riotous.
- Going briskly; highly successful.
- A kind of humming-top.
Wiktionary
- adj. Very; intensively; extremely.
- adj. Very successful; lively; profitable; thriving; prosperous.
- v. present participle of roar.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation.
- n. An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. extremely.
- n. a deep prolonged loud noise
- adj. very lively and profitable
- n. a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
Examples
“Mr. Turnbull was soon driving what he called a roaring trade.”
“When the hockey game went into overtime, I ended up going back to the penthouse and watching the rest of the game with my teammates, we had the windows open so you could hear the crowd roaring from the BC Place.”
“Hear "Fox News roaring from the right, MSNBC shouting back from the left, and CNN flailing in the middle".”
The Guardian: Ed Miliband is ahead of the pack while pundits are stuck in Gridlock Gulch
“The PARTY of NO senators are speaking to audiences about Euthanize; Panel of Death; pulling the plug on grandma ... the POLLS poll in those demographic areas where the up roaring is occurring ...”
“The crowd was roaring from the start, moved by third-base coach Al Newman's ceremonial first pitch to Gardenhire.”
“They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea”
“Or else, "I made myself like a lion (namely, in roaring, through pain), He was so breaking my bones!”
“One bull after another was driven in roaring, and as here they are generally fierce and their horns not blunted as in Mexico, it is a much more dangerous affair.”
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
“For example, low-grade laryngeal hemiparesis or hemiplegia (this condition is sometimes termed roaring) might be evident at rest.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘roaring’.
madmouth in an advanced state of inebriation; obsolete slang. Jun 30, 2009
snarkout More fun in the Elizabethan sense. Dec 10, 2006