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shout

/ʃaʊt/

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Canada/ʃʌʊt/

shout noun: a loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great effort.

Noun (1)

shout (plural shouts)

  1. A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great effort.
    • give out a shout
    • hear a desperate shout
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang) A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.
    • “I′ll get my wine though,” taking out her wallet.
      “No. This is my shout,” holding up his hand as though to ward her money off.1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, page 290
    • Cut to the pub on a lads night out,
      Man at the bar cos it was his shout2006, Lily Allen, Knock 'Em Out
  3. (Australia, UK, slang) A call-out for an emergency services team.
    • Yet another ambulance on a shout enters Parliament Square.2017, Dave Boulter, London's Emergency Service Vehicles
  4. (informal) A greeting, name-check or other mention, for example on a radio or TV program.
    • Next up the new single from Beyoncé, but first a shout to Barry Bloggins and his wife Belinda...
    Synonyms:
    shout out
  5. (informal) A suggestion; an idea.
    • Yeah, good shout. We might get an idea of what we're up against before we park up and do business.1998, Eddy Brimson, Hooligan, page 180
    • You're bored, you decide to get a tattoo. Maybe you really like chimps. You sit down with your tattoo artist. Just the chimp, sir? No, hang on. Can you do a chimp, but in a suit? Yeah, nice shout, what about sticking a pair of glasses on him too? Love it, let's have him holding a gun as well. Hold...2018 September 6, Peter Crouch, How to Be a Footballer, Random House, →ISBN

Verb

shout (third-person singular simple present shouts, present participle shouting, simple past and past participle shouted)

  1. (intransitive) To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.
    • Mom shouted to us to come sit at the table.
    • They shouted thrice; what was the last cry for?1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (transitive) To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out
    • They shouted his name to get his attention.
    Synonyms:
    halloo
  3. (figuratively, intransitive) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
    • We walk’d together on the crown
      Of a high mountain which look’d down
      Afar from its proud natural towers
      Of rock and forest, on the hills—
      The dwindled hills! begirt with bowers
      And shouting with a thousand rills.1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
  4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
    • "It appears to be the general opinion that it's my business to always shout - I will shout." He took up a hat and defiantly cast twopence into it.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 16
    • After shouting me a plate of noodles and limp vegetables, he helped me change money by introducing me to the stallholder who offered the best exchange rates.1999, Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home: London to Sydney the Hard Way, page 301
    Synonyms:
    treat
  5. (Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case, regarded as the electronic messaging equivalent of oral shouting.
    • Please don't shout in the chat room.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To treat with shouts or clamor.
    • How would these men have shouted at the laying on of the last stone of the battlements1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC

Noun (2)

shout (plural shouts)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A flat-bottomed boat, a barge (for carrying cargo, etc), now especially a light boat used in duck-shooting.
    • Although the density of the flour in particular would be less than that of the wheat, an equivalent 200 quarters of wheat per shout would not seem out of the question here. Again using Table 4, this suggests quite large boats carrying nearly 35 tons. If the 'Blackfriars 3' shout did indeed carry...2007 October 25, John Blair, Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 124

shout meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

shout in Hindi

to utter a sudden and loud outcry
चिल्लाना cillānā

shout in Tamil

to utter a sudden and loud outcry
கத்து kattu

shout in Marathi

to shout, yell, cry out
ओरडणे oraḍṇe

shout in Urdu

to utter a sudden and loud outcry
چلانا cillānā
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shout in Bengali
চিত্কার করা citkar kora
shout in Telugu
అరుపు arupu, అరుచు arucu
shout in Malayalam
അലറുക alaṟuka
shout in Kannada
ಕತ್ತು kattu
shout in Punjabi
سدا saddā
shout in Gujarati
હાક hāk
shout in Odia
ଚିତ୍କାର କରନ୍ତୁ, ଚିତ୍କାର କର, ଚିତ୍କାର କରିବା
shout in Sanskrit
क्रोश krośa
shout in Sinhala
අඬලනවා aⁿḍalanawā
shout in Assamese
চিঞৰ siõr
shout in Nepali
कराउनु karāunu, हकार्नु hakārnu
shout in Tagalog
sigaw
shout in Arabic
صَيح, صِيَاح ṣiyāḥ, صَرَخَ ṣaraḵa, صَاحَ ṣāḥa
shout in Malay
jeritan, berteriak
shout in Indonesian
berteriak
shout in Persian
فریاد faryâd, فریاد کردن faryâd kardan
shout in Thai
ตะโกน dtà-goon, กระโชก grà-chôok
shout in Vietnamese
kêu la, la hét, hò hét, quát tháo
shout in Myanmar
ကြွေး krwe:, အော် au, ငြာ ngra, ကြော်ငြာ krau-ngra

Examples of shout in a sentence

  • an ear-piercing shout
  • Yeah, nice shout, what about sticking a pair of glasses on him too?2018 September 6, Peter Crouch, How to Be a Footballer, Random House, →ISBN:
  • "I decided to do it [stand for election] because I'd been interested in politics for a long time and, like lots of people, had spent a lot of time shouting at the radio.2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 31:
  • Although the density of the flour in particular would be less than that of the wheat, an equivalent 200 quarters of wheat per shout would not seem out of the question here.2007 October 25, John Blair, Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 124:

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Synonyms of shout

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Forms of shout

Noun
pluralshouts
Verb
third-person singular presentshouts
present participleshouting
past participleshouted
pastshouted

Past tense of shout: shouted

Plural of shout: shouts

Origin of shout

From Middle English shouten. Further origin uncertain. Possibly related to Middle English shooten (“to shoot (out)”) or from or akin to Old Norse skúta (“to chide, scold”), Old Norse skúti, skúta (“a taunt”). See also the second, rare sense of the verb scout (“to reject with contempt”).

From Middle English shout(e), from Middle Dutch schûte (“boat or light ship”). Doublet of schuit, see there for more. Compare scout (“swift sailing boat”).

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Questions about shout

What does shout mean?
Shout means a loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great effort.
What is shout in Hindi?
Shout in Hindi is चिल्लाना (cillānā). See Shout meaning in Hindi.
How do you use shout in a sentence?
an ear-piercing shout
What part of speech is shout?
Shout can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce shout?
Shout is pronounced /ʃaʊt/.
What is the plural of shout?
The plural of shout is shouts.

Words near shout in the dictionary

  1. shouq
  2. shouqs
  3. shouse
  4. shouses
  5. Shouson Hill
  6. shout
  7. shout down
  8. shout fire in a crowded theater
  9. shout from the rooftops
  10. shout out
  11. shout the odds

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shout (page history and authors); ओरडणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); അലറുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಕತ್ತು (Kannada) (page history and authors); سدا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); હાક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); shout (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); कराउनु (Nepali) (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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