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blare

UK/blɛə//blɛ(ə)ɹ/

blare verb: to play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, Often followed by out) To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
    • In 2000, a robber held up a bank in San Diego, USA. It seems everyone held their noses rather than sticking their hands up because the man was so smelly! […] Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man.2014, Nick Arnold, “Body Breakdowns and Recovery”, in Horrible Science: Body Owner’s Handbook, revised edition, London: Scholastic Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 159
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
    • [T]he world, the world, / All ear and eye, with such a stupid heart / To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue / To blare its own interpretation— […]1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 196
  3. (intransitive) To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
    • The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
    • [O]n plains, and under City-walls, innumerable regimental bands blare-off into the Inane, without note from us.1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Mankind”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 49
  4. (dialectal, intransitive, archaic except UK) To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
    • And the kyne wente ſtraight waye vnto Beth Semes vpon one ſtreete, and wente on blearynge, and turned nether to the righte hande ner to the lefte.1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, I. Kynges [1...
    • The worthies alſo of Moab bleared and cried for very ſorow of their myndes: Wo is my hert for Moabs ſake.1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Esay [Isaiah]...

Noun

blare (countable and uncountable, plural blares)

  1. A loud sound.
    • I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
    • [T]heir host of eagles flew / Past the Pyrenean pines, / Follow'd up in valley and glen / With blare of bugle, clamour of men, / Roll of cannon and clash of arms, / And England pouring on her foes.1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Stanza VI”, in Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 10
  2. (figuratively) Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
    • Archivist Camus, an Old-Constituent appointed Archivist, he and the Ancient Twelve, amid blare of military pomp and clangour, enter, bearing the divine Book: and President and all Legislative Senators, laying their hand on the same, successively take the Oath, with cheers and heart-effusion...1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Book of the Law”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First), page 209
    • And we came to the Isle of Fire: we were lured by the light from afar, / For the peak sent up one league of fire to the Northern Star; / Lured by the glare and the blare, but scarcely could stand upright, / For the whole isle shudder'd and shook like a man in a mortal affright; […]1880, Alfred Tennyson, “[Ballads and Other Poems.] The Voyage of Maeldune. (Founded on an Irish Legend. A.D. 700.)”, in Ballads and Other Poems, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza...
  3. (dialectal, obsolete except UK) A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
    • The herds [of bison], in their flight from the burning pastures had rushed over the bed of the watercourse—scaled the slopes of the banks. […] One cry alone more wild than their own savage blare pierced the reek through which the Brute Hurricane swept.1861 September 28 – 1862 March 8, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XLVII, in A Strange Story. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC, pages 369–370

blare meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

blare in Urdu

دھاڑ, شور, ڈکارنا, للکارنا, زور سے چلانا, چیخنا

blare in Bengali

উচ্চস্বরে, কর্কশ শব্দে বাজা, ঘোষণা করা

blare in Malayalam

കാഹള സ്വരത്തിൽ പറയുക, ഉറക്കെ ശബ്ദം മുഴക്കുക

blare in Kannada

ಅಂಜು, ಚೀರು, ಕಿರಿಚು, ಕೂಗು, ಘೋಷಿಸು, ಆರು

Examples of blare in a sentence

  • Blazon your mottos of blessing and prayer! / Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours! / Warble, O bugle, and trumpet, blare! / Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers!1863 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “A Welcome to Alexandra. March 7, 1863.”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […]...
  • Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.1922 October, Michael Arlen, “Book the Second: The Friends. Chapter II.”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, London; Glasgow...
  • The blare of the music and the restlessness of the chorus afflicted his nerves.1924 May 24 – July 12, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Judson Finds an Old Friend”, in Bill the Conqueror: His Invasion of England in the...
  • 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.1936, F[rederick] J[oseph] Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney, N.S.W.: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, →OCLC...

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Forms of blare

Verb
third-person singular presentblares
present participleblaring
past participleblared
pastblared
alternative formblear
alternative formblair
alternative Scotlandbleir
Noun
pluralblares

Past tense of blare: blared

Origin of blare

The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates German Low German blaren, blarren Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren) Saterland Frisian blärje West Frisian blearje

Words formed from blare

Words that rhyme with blare

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Questions about blare

What does blare mean?
Blare means to play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
What is blare in Urdu?
Blare in Urdu is دھاڑ, شور, ڈکارنا. See Blare meaning in Urdu.
How do you use blare in a sentence?
Blazon your mottos of blessing and prayer! / Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours! / Warble, O bugle, and trumpet, blare! / Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers!
What part of speech is blare?
Blare can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce blare?
Blare is pronounced /blɛə/ (UK).
What is the past tense of blare?
The past tense of blare is blared.

Words near blare in the dictionary

  1. BLAP
  2. blaphart
  3. blapharts
  4. blaps
  5. blapses
  6. blare
  7. blare out
  8. blared
  9. blared out
  10. blares
  11. blares out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blare (page history and authors); blare (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blare (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blare (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blare (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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