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# outcry

«outcry» in Mova's school dictionary: **a loud shout of protest, anger or alarm, often from many…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (outcry, outcries)

### meaning for a pupil

An outcry is a loud shout of protest, anger or alarm, often from many people together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcry/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

crowds shout in protest or alarm in tales and stories

### examples

- There was an outcry when the bell rang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcry/#x1)
- The villagers raised an outcry against the wicked giant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcry/#x2)
- Her outcry woke the whole house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcry/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2612/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «outcry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.