blare

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English

WOTD – 17 July 2023

Etymology

The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣren,[1] from Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative.[2]

The noun is derived from the verb.[3]

cognates

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛɚ
  • Homophones: blair, Blair

Verb

blare (third-person singular simple present blares, present participle blaring, simple past and past participle blared)

  1. (transitive)
    1. Often followed by out: of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly.
      • 2014, Nick Arnold, Horrible Science: Body Owner’s Handbook, page 159:
        Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man.
    2. (figuratively) To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
      The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
      • 2011 December 14, Andrew Khan, “How isolationist is British pop?”, in the Guardian‎[1]:
        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. (archaic except British, dialectal) To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.

Derived terms

Translations

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[2]:
      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.
    • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 214:
      The screeching of brakes, the monotonous blare of motor horns, the clip-clip of shoes on slippery pavements, the rustling of wet mackintoshes were all part of the great metropolis.
  2. Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.

Translations

References

  1. ^ “blēren, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ Compare “blare, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2023; “blare, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. ^ “blare, n.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2023; “blare, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Noun

blare

  1. plural of blaar

Dalmatian

Verb

blare

  1. Alternative form of vular

Dutch

Verb

blare

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of blaren
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