Hullabaloo

//ˌhʌləbəˈluː//

Synonyms for "hullabaloo" (144 found)

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Translations

74 translations across 18 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • جَلَبَة noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • гюрултия noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • дандания noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • калабалък noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Czech

1 entries
  • povyk noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Finnish

4 entries
  • hulabaloo noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • hulina noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • mekastus noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • mekkala noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

French

4 entries
  • branle-bas noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • branlebas noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • buzz noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • clameur noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

German

4 entries
  • Aufheben noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • Aufregung noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • Aufruhr noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • Bohei noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • felzúdulás noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Icelandic

2 entries
  • buslugangur noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • hamagangur noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Irish

2 entries
  • fuilibiliú noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • fuililiú noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Latvian

1 entries
  • brēka noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Polish

4 entries
  • poruszenie noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • raban noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • rwetes noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • zamieszanie noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Russian

1 entries
  • тарара́м noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Sicilian

1 entries
  • fari casinu verb (to make a commotion or uproar)

Spanish

4 entries
  • algarabía noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • aspaviento noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • barullo noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • descalzaperros noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Swedish

4 entries
  • hallabaloo noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • kalabalik noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • liv noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • uppståndelse noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Turkish

3 entries
  • hayhuy noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • karışıklık noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • teşevvüş noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Upper Sorbian

4 entries
  • hołk noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • keklija noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • rozbudźenosć noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • šmjat noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Welsh

3 entries
  • dadwrdd noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • halabalŵ noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)
  • halibalŵ noun (clamour, commotion, fuss or uproar)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Tom and Mary wanted to get married on the quiet to avoid all the hullabaloo.

Source: tatoeba (3335809)

Despite all the recent hullabaloo about humankind preparing to go to Mars, we should not overlook the practicality of our Moon—Luna—being possibly the first substantial step of human colonization outside our Earth—Terra. Luna is very much closer than Mars, to Terra. What astronauts, taikonauts, or cosmonauts need really is to practice their space skills on a Moon base. People need to know how to live on worlds with lower gravity. People need to know how to make and raise babies outside Earth. People need to know how to simply live on a different world, and that practice would likely find itself on the Moon. Practice makes perfect. And Luna is it. I have read a research paper supporting the idea of a human facility on the Moon, to prepare us humankind for farther objectives. It would take a long, long time... No, humankind has not yet conquered the Moon! The current romantic focus on Mars is partly because some people think that humankind indeed has conquered the Moon, which is, therefore, a "has-been" for space exploration. Such is a falsehood. Wake up, humanity! Other countries do know...

Source: tatoeba (13020466)

They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.

Source: wiktionary

[…]The truth of all this hullaballoo was that Rigby had a sly pension which, by an inevitable association of ideas, he always connected with the maintenance of an Aristocracy.

Source: wiktionary

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