aroar

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English

Etymology

From a- +‎ roar.

Pronunciation

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;

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