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.”
“After landing deftly on his paws, he disappeared into the woods, his long ululate howl echoing behind him as he ran away from me.”
“In some cultures, the grieving ululate, whip themselves, and rend their clothing.”
“If he does, the elder women begin to ululate and say, "Our child is married by a man.”
“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
“Clattering bells, pulsating drums and whining strings offset voices that soar in celebration, question each other or ululate mournfully.”
“Aeidin began to ululate in a high voice that gave me a chill, and another woman and another joined her, until the dining court resounded with their cries.”
“Speaking of ululating, the veriword is "ookeri" which sound like a great thing to yodel or ululate; sounds like a good mantra, too.”
“Dus dat meen yu kan nawt ululate wen yur callin yur phlonqai? lolcatburglar says:”
Today’s access password is “bellyrub”. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Regardless of the fact that statements like the one quoted above sometimes make me want to ululate in despair, the fact is that when we "shrink the distance" between writers and audiences, it means those most inclined to self-publish will be able to be ignored just as completely and at shorter range.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ululate’.
-
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 147 more...
-
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...
-
see ulater, alligator
Discombobulate-enkindled 'ulate' words.
discombobulate, undulate, perambulate, ululate, tabulate, postulate, particulate, articulate, inarticulate, populate, manipulate, capitulate and 63 more...
-
2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
-
That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
-
Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
-
exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
-
Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2000
1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008
segue, palimpsest, bête noire, farrago, expatiate, nadir, protean, fulsome, constitutional, quondam, sinecure, vainglory and 324 more...
-
Oblivion
By David Foster Wallace
ossify, reverie, hypergeometric, emetic, mien, cruciform, accreted, perpend, rheostat, predilections, coccyx, hirsute and 178 more...
-
Warp, Woof, Wimble
My favorite words.
prurient, locution, mondegreen, vaunted, lugubrious, larine, warp, woof, wimble, ineffable, pyknic, sodden and 114 more...
-
random
words I read but don't know
nascent, proxy, desultory, charlatan, churlish, emaciated, gaudy, shill, lurid, frisson, marauding, plunder and 610 more...
-
Awesome onomatopoeiac words
-
Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
-
Listless
Nowhere else to put these yet.
sibilant, cloying, pithy, apologia, odyssey, amanuensis, pleasantries, ginormous, burnish, sojourn, quonset, over-under and 205 more...
-
5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2707 more...
-
GRE 2011
Lists 300 top words appearing in revised GRE
meticulous, Prosaic, Disseminate, Censure, Prodigal, Maintain, Deride, Pragmatic, Deferential, Contrite, Panache, Fey and 89 more...
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.