Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To howl, wail, or lament loudly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To howl, as a dog or a wolf. To hoot or screech, as an owl.
Wiktionary
- v. to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy
- v. to produce a rapid and prolonged series of sharp noises with one's voice.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To howl, as a dog or a wolf; to wail.
WordNet 3.0
- v. emit long loud cries
Etymologies
- Latin ululāre, ululāt-, ultimately of imitative origin.
Examples
“And then she started to ululate, which is what they do.”
“In some cultures, the grieving ululate, whip themselves, and rend their clothing.”
“All proceeds from the song will go to the Health and Hope Oasis, the children's cancer hospital they visited in Cairo, bringing children to their feet clapping and dancing in spite of their IVs and inspiring the hospital workers to ululate to the music.”
The Huffington Post: Cynthia P. Schneider: The Gospel Of Sufism In Post-Revolutionary Egypt
“By all means, sing and chant, but do not ululate, because this brings forth unnecessary demons.”
“After landing deftly on his paws, he disappeared into the woods, his long ululate howl echoing behind him as he ran away from me.”
“Clattering bells, pulsating drums and whining strings offset voices that soar in celebration, question each other or ululate mournfully.”
“They threatened, cajoled, bribed and withheld food aid from the people to force them out into the street and clap and ululate for them as they paraded themselves in their invisible majestic robe of democratic election.”
The Huffington Post: Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia at the Crossroads of History
“The women will sing and ululate and shout "BeadforLife Oye" as they parade through the village.”
“If he does, the elder women begin to ululate and say, "Our child is married by a man.”
““Sometimes they even ululate and this really infuriates the guards.” says Haafiz.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ululate’.
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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see ulater, alligator
Discombobulate-enkindled 'ulate' words.
discombobulate, undulate, perambulate, ululate, tabulate, postulate, particulate, articulate, inarticulate, populate, manipulate, capitulate and 95 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
abet, abhor, abjure, abnegation, abstruse, accessible, acclaim, accommodating, accord, accost, accretion, acquiesce and 1021 more...
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KYRA LOVES WORDS!!!!!
I love words. Words with normal meanings, but that are little known so that I can still have a fantastic vocabulary and use it too!
pandiculation, osculation, ululate, ennui, facetious, tumultuous, capricious, ostentatious, abhor
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exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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Useful
parkour, diegetic, callipygian, dasypygal, hypnagogic, hypnopompic, antejentacular, postprandial, perspicuity, perspicacity, föhn, traceur and 95 more...
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Word of the day.
Some days, there will be a word. That word is the word of the day. Other days shall remain wordless. That's just the way things go.
petulant, anisometropia, zoroaster, cram, affinity, proprietary, cupertino effect, sidereal, schmutz, icosanoids, vendetta, bougie and 137 more...
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Derideo's Words
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Listless
Nowhere else to put these yet.
sibilant, cloying, pithy, apologia, odyssey, amanuensis, pleasantries, ginormous, burnish, sojourn, quonset, over-under and 206 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Awesome onomatopoeiac words
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Warp, Woof, Wimble
My favorite words.
prurient, locution, mondegreen, vaunted, lugubrious, larine, warp, woof, wimble, ineffable, pyknic, sodden and 114 more...
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Oblivion
By David Foster Wallace
ossify, reverie, hypergeometric, emetic, mien, cruciform, accreted, perpend, rheostat, predilections, coccyx, hirsute and 178 more...
yarb Citation on shit-works. Jun 19, 2009
chained_bear Not to be confused with uvulate. Aug 25, 2008
82times I had to look this one up today after reading it in What is the What. I'm gonna keep this word, I like it. Nov 11, 2007