uproarとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʌpɹɔː/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʌpɹɔːɹ/

名詞

uproar (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 uproars)

1. Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
2. Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
3. A loud protest, controversy, or outrage.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:commotion

派生語

• uproarious
• uproarish

動詞

uproar (三人称単数 現在形 uproars, 現在分詞 uproaring, 過去形および過去分詞形 uproared)

1. (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     […] had I power, I should
     Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
     Uproar the universal peace, confound
     All unity on earth.

2. (intransitive) To make an uproar.
   • 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History‎^[1], London: Francis Holden, published 1698, Part II:

     […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]

   • 1824, Thomas Carlyle (translator), “Chapter 8”, in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels‎^[2], New York: A.L. Burt, translation of original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published 1839, page 210-211:

     […] 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^[3], London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, page 56:

     When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,
     And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,

   • 1829, Mason Locke Weems, “Chapter 12”, in The Life of General Francis Marion‎^[4], Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, page 106:

     Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.

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