Soar
name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The act of soaring.
"c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor this apparent soar of the hooded falcon"
- 2 the act of rising upward into the air wordnet
- 3 An upward flight.
- 1 To fly high with little effort, like a bird. intransitive
"When soars Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurl'd,"
- 2 go or move upward wordnet
- 3 To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
- 4 fly a plane without an engine wordnet
- 5 To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
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- 6 fly upwards or high in the sky wordnet
- 7 To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
"The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued."
- 8 rise rapidly wordnet
- 9 To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood. figuratively
"Such where the deep tranſported mind may ſoare / Above the wheeling poles,"
- 10 fly by means of a hang glider wordnet
- 1 A river in Leicestershire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
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More examples"Don't flutter about like a hen, when you can soar to the heights of an eagle."
Etymology
From Middle English soren, from Old French essorer (“to fly up, soar”), from Vulgar Latin *exaurare (“to rise into the air”), from Latin ex (“out”) + aura (“the air, a breeze”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breath”). Compare aura, and exhale.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, run”), similar to the Latin river name Saravus and Sar in Spain.
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