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uproar
English
Etymology
Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr. Possibly influenced by roar.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??p???/
- (US) IPA(key): /??p????/
Noun
uproar (countable and uncountable, plural uproars)
- Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
- Loud confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
- A loud protest, controversy, outrage
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:commotion
Derived terms
- uproarious
- uproarish
Translations
Verb
uproar (third-person singular simple present uproars, present participle uproaring, simple past and past participle uproared)
- (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- […] had I power, I should
- Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
- Uproar the universal peace, confound
- All unity on earth.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- (intransitive) To make an uproar.
- 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,[2]
- […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]
- 1824, Thomas Carlyle (translator), Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, New York: A.L. Burt, 1839, Book 4, Chapter 8, pp. 210-211,[3]
- […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.
- 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity, London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, p. 56,[4]
- When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,
- And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,
- 1829, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of General Francis Marion, Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, Chapter 12, p. 106,[5]
- Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.
- 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,[2]
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ado
English
Etymology
From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??du?/
Noun
ado (uncountable)
- trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene i[1]:
- Antonio:
- In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
- It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
- But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
- What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
- I am to learn;
- And such a wantwit sadness makes of me,
- That I have much ado to know myself.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience:
- Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene i[1]:
Usage notes
Ado is mostly used in set phrases, such as without further ado or much ado about nothing.
Translations
References
- ado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- AOD, DAO, DOA, Dao, ODA, Oda, dao, oad, oda
Afar
Alternative forms
- (Southern dialects) aadó
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??do/
- Hyphenation: a?do
Noun
adó f
- (Northern dialects) generation
- (Northern dialects) era
Declension
References
- E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985) , “ado”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, ?ISBN
French
Etymology
Clipping of adolescent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.do/
Noun
ado m or f (plural ados)
- (colloquial) teen, teenager
Pali
Alternative forms
Verb
ado
- second-person singular aorist active of dad?ti (“to give”)
Sidamo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ado/
Noun
ado f
- milk
References
- Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62
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