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# roar

«roar» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make a very loud, deep sound like a lion** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (roar, roars, roared, roaring); noun (a roar, roars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To roar is to make a very loud, deep sound like a lion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roar/#m1)

2) A roar is that loud, deep sound, or the loud noise of a crowd, engine, wind or sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roar/#m2)

3) To roar with laughter is to laugh very loudly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roar/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons lions and tigers roar; in stories dragons and monsters roar. In everyday life crowds roar at matches and engines roar. Phrases: «roar with laughter», «the roar of the crowd», «a roaring fire».

### examples

- The lion roared at the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roar/#x1)
- The crowd roared when we scored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roar/#x2)
- We heard the roar of the waterfall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roar/#x3)
- Dad roared with laughter at the joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roar/#x4)
- The plane roared over our heads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roar/#x5)
- We sat by a roaring fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roar/#x6)
- The dragon gave a terrible roar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roar/#x7)

### note

Past: «roared». Do not confuse with «raw» (uncooked), which sounds similar in many accents. «A roaring success» means a very big success.

### In the corpora

- [Tigers greet friends with a soft puffing sound called chuffing, or prusten; they can roar too, but chuffing is for friends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/12/)
- [Snow leopards cannot roar like lions and tigers; they hiss, growl and make a puffing sound instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/5/)
- [The Rat lights a roaring fire and sets the Mole dusting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/5/)
- [Jaguar roars for his Mother.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/8/)
- [Today experts say even more simply: when thunder roars, go indoors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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