Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A trumpet or horn fanfare.
- n. A sound resembling such a fanfare.
- n. A hunting cry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A blast on a trumpet or horn.
Wiktionary
- n. a flourish on a trumpet
Etymologies
- Imitative. (Wiktionary)
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Malagasy · Myanmar: Rava ilay fiangonana bodista manan-tantara”
Global Voices in English » Myanmar: Collapse of an Ancient Pagoda
“The last trumpet sounded — tantara! tantara! — its shrill call rang over the wide plains, and the wide plains gave back no answer.”
“But hardly had we sat down ere we heard the tom-toming of the kettledrum and tantara of trumpets and clash of cymbals, and the rattling of war men's lances, and the clamors of assailants and the clanking of bits and the neighing of steeds, while the world was canopied with dense dust and sand clouds raised by the horses 'hoofs.”
“Brownberry after dark one night in a proper tantara, with her eyes rolling and her bosom heaving like the waves of the sea.”
“Tantara, tantara the trumpets sound, which makes our hearts with joy abound.”
“Their terror was not lessened by the growing volume of shouts outside the house, and by the rub-a-dub-dub of the drums, and the tantara of the bugles, as the "To arms" was sounded along the village street.”
“Andy alighted, and gave a thundering tantara-ra at the door.”
““Dub-a-dub, dub-a-dub — thus go the drums, Tantara, tantara, the Englishman comes.””
“How about because (a tantara of trumpets, please) we're a swell place to be.”
“Malagasy · Gabon: Kandidà mampiasa media sosialy amin'ity fifidianana filoham-pirenena manan-tantara ity bahasa Indonesia · Gabon: Capres Gunakan Jejaring Sosial dalam Pemilu Bersejarah”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tantara’.
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Hunting cries
tantara, yoicks, tantivy, tallyho, chivvy, hoics, tally-ho, chivy, chevy, soho, hue, halloo and 15 more...
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beatricks's Words
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NTDW1
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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afbroman's Words
serendipitous, pule, truculent, vitriol, belletrist, eyrie, rodomontade, ersatz, sere, sedulous, dilettante, mulct and 23 more...
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knitandpurl "A sax drawls tantaras (all A-flats and an A-sharp): fa-la-la-la-la."
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 15 May 19, 2010