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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Making, given to, or marked by noisy and vehement outcry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Making an outcry; clamorous; noisy: as, a vociferous partizan.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Making or characterized by a noisy outcry; clamorous.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry

Etymologies

  1. Latin vociferari ("shout, yell"), from vox ("voice") + ferre ("to carry") (see infer). Surface analysis is voice +‎ -iferous. (Wiktionary)

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  • sera "Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry. a vociferous mob" Aug 13, 2007

  • seanmeade Vociferous derives from Latin vociferari, "to shout, to cry out" from vox, "voice" + ferre, "to carry."

    Guess what that makes me sing? 'Hush, hush, keep it down, down. Voices carry.' Mar 26, 2007

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