blare

English

Etymology

From Middle English bleren, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch bleren (“to bleat, cry, bawl, shout”) (Dutch blèren). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”). Compare Dutch blaren.

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -ɛə(r)

• Homophones: blair, Blair

Noun

blare (countable and uncountable, plural blares)

1. A loud sound.

   I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/2/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.

2. Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.

Translations

a loud sound

• Bulgarian: тръбене (bg) (trǎbene), шумно свирене (šumno svirene), трясък (bg) (trjasǎk)
• Norwegian: brøl n, skrall n
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• Russian: рёв (ru) m (rjov), гро́мкий (ru) (grómkij) звук (ru) m (zvuk)

dazzling often garish brilliance

• French: éclat (fr) m, brillance (fr) f
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• Russian: ослепительная (ru) (oslepitelʹnaja) вспы́шка (ru) f (vspýška), цветистость (ru) f (cvetistostʹ)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a loud sound.

   The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.

   • 2011 December 14, Andrew Khan, “How isolationist is British pop?”, in the Guardian‎^[2]:

     France, even after 30 years of extraordinary synth, electro and urban pop, is still beaten with a stick marked "Johnny Hallyday" by otherwise sensible journalists. Songs that have taken Europe by storm, from the gloriously bleak Belgian disco of Stromae's Alors on Danse to Sexion d'Assaut's soulful Desole blare from cars everywhere between Lisbon and Lublin but run aground as soon as they hit Dover.

2. (transitive) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
   • Tennyson

     to blare its own interpretation

   • 2014, Nick Arnold, Horrible Science: Body Owner's Handbook (page 159)

     Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man.

Translations

to make a loud sound

• Bulgarian: тръбя (bg) (trǎbja)
• Interlingue:
• Norwegian: brøle, skralle
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• Russian: гро́мко (ru) (grómko) труби́ть (ru) (trubítʹ)

Anagrams

• Alber, Laber, Rabel, abler, baler, belar, blear

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Afrikaans

Noun

blare

1. plural of blaar

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Dalmatian

Verb

blare

1. Alternative form of vular

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Dutch

Verb

blare

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaren