BELLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bellow mean? 

• BELLOW (noun)
  The noun BELLOW has 2 senses:

1. a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

2. United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005)

  Familiarity information: BELLOW used as a noun is rare.

• BELLOW (verb)
  The verb BELLOW has 2 senses:

1. shout loudly and without restraint

2. make a loud noise, as of animal

  Familiarity information: BELLOW used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bellow; bellowing; holla; holler; hollering; hollo; holloa; roar; roaring; yowl

Context example:

his bellow filled the hallway

Hypernyms ("bellow" is a kind of...):

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

Derivation:

bellow (shout loudly and without restraint)

bellow (make a loud noise, as of animal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bellow; Saul Bellow; Solomon Bellow

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

• BELLOW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bellow    ... he / she / it bellows   
Past simple: bellowed   
Past participle: bellowed   
-ing form: bellowing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shout loudly and without restraint

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bawl; bellow

Hypernyms (to "bellow" is one way to...):

shout (utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bellow; bellowing (a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a loud noise, as of animal

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bellow; roar

Context example:

The bull bellowed

Hypernyms (to "bellow" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence examples:

You can hear animals bellow in the meadows
The meadows bellow with animals

Derivation:

bellow; bellowing (a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal))

 Context examples 

At the same time there broke upon our ears a continuous and mighty bellowing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I don't very well know what I did with my hands, but he called me "Rat! Rat!" and bellowed out aloud.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At the instant he sprang from his chair his mouth opened and there issued forth a sound that was half roar, half bellow.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

By my faith! that's easily seen, said the prince, laughing, for a few score English archers at yonder end are bellowing as though they would out-shout the mighty multitude.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They roared with delight, and bellowed out scraps of advice to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fellow gave a bellow of anger and sprang upon me like a tiger.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heard a click of steel and a bellow like an enraged bull.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bellowed like a bull and rushed for the door with all that were left alive at his heels.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For just then, although the sun had still an hour or two to run, all the echoes of the island awoke and bellowed to the thunder of a cannon.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Challenger sprang into the air bellowing like a bull, and tore frantically at his coat and shirt to get them off.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)