aroar

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ roar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹɔː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

aroar

1. Abounding with noise; abounding with laughter.

   Synonym: roaring

   Her quip set the dinner table aroar.

   • 1893, Ambrose Bierce, “One Kind of Officer”, in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, and Other Stories‎, page 90:

     […] scarcely five minutes had passed since Captain Ransome’s guns had broken the truce of doubt before the whole region was aroar: the enemy had attacked nearly everywhere.

   • 1903, Jack London, “Too Much Gold”, in The Faith of Men, and Other Stories‎, New York: Macmillan, page 105:

     The great room, ordinarily aroar with life, was still and gloomy as a tomb.

   • 1956, Yukio Mishima, chapter 8, in Meredith Weatherby, transl., The Sound of Waves‎, Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, page 64:

     A ground swell set in; the beach was aroar with incoming waves;

Anagrams

• Arora