SHOUTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shouting mean? 

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

1. encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators

2. uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement

  Familiarity information: SHOUTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOUTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cheering; shouting

Context example:

it's all over but the shouting

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

encouragement (the expression of approval and support)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

shouting; yelling

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

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

Derivation:

shout (utter a sudden loud cry)

 Context examples 

I found by their pointing towards me and to each other, that they plainly discovered me, although they made no return to my shouting.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He came in the train from Klausenburg, and the guard was told by the station-master there that he rushed into the station shouting for a ticket for home.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The smoke and shouting were enough to shake nerves of steel.

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

“Get a knife somebody!” Leach was shouting.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Jim, Jim!” I heard him shouting.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As he spoke, a sudden shouting broke forth in the castle, with the scream of a woman and the rush of many feet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cries, which had sunk down into a hoarse, inarticulate shouting, came from the room which we had first visited.

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

Surprise and greetings over, he led her away into the grounds, where they could talk without shouting down the music.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But the eldest said, “It is only our princes, who are shouting for joy at our approach.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The sister lay back stone-dead in her chair, while the two brothers sat on each side of her laughing, shouting, and singing, the senses stricken clean out of them.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)