What does "blare" mean?
A loud sound.
Blare
/blɛə/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A loud sound.
- Grammar: blare is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: clamor, din, announce, bark.
- Useful contrasts: hush, muffle, murmur.
- Usage evidence: The blare of the radio burst upon our ears.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A loud sound. countable, uncountable
"I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio."
- 2 a loud harsh or strident noise wordnet
- 3 Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"Archivist Camus, an Old-Constituent appointed Archivist, he and the Ancient Twelve, amid blare of military pomp and clangour, enter, bearing the divine Book: and President and all Legislative Senators, laying their hand on the same, successively take the Oath, with cheers and heart-effusion, universal three-times-three."
- 4 A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring. countable, dialectal, uncountable
"The herds [of bison], in their flight from the burning pastures had rushed over the bed of the watercourse—scaled the slopes of the banks. […] One cry alone more wild than their own savage blare pierced the reek through which the Brute Hurricane swept."
Verb
- 1 To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels. transitive
"In 2000, a robber held up a bank in San Diego, USA. It seems everyone held their noses rather than sticking their hands up because the man was so smelly! […] Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man."
- 2 make a strident sound wordnet
- 3 To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim. figuratively, transitive
"[T]he world, the world, / All ear and eye, with such a stupid heart / To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue / To blare its own interpretation— […]"
- 4 make a strident noise wordnet
- 5 To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet. intransitive
"The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache."
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- 6 To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring. dialectal, intransitive
"And the kyne wente ſtraight waye vnto Beth Semes vpon one ſtreete, and wente on blearynge, and turned nether to the righte hande ner to the lefte."
Example
"The blare of the radio burst upon our ears."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "blare"?
Common synonyms include: clamor, din, announce, bark, bawl, bay.
How do you use "blare" in a sentence?
The blare of the radio burst upon our ears.
How do you pronounce "blare"?
Pronounced /blɛə/.
Etymology
The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates German Low German blaren, blarren Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren) Saterland Frisian blärje West Frisian blearje