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uproar

UK/ˈʌpɹɔː//ˈʌpɹɔːɹ/

uproar noun: tumultuous, noisy excitement.

Noun

uproar (countable and uncountable, plural uproars)

  1. Tumultuous, noisy excitement.
  2. Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
  3. A loud protest, controversy, or outrage.
    • This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024

Verb

uproar (third-person singular simple present uproars, present participle uproaring, simple past and past participle uproared)

  1. (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
    • […] had I power, I should
      Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
      Uproar the universal peace, confound
      All unity on earth.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...
  2. (intransitive) To make an uproar.
    • […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, published 1698, Part II, page 110, note
    • […] 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.1824, “Chapter 8”, in Thomas Carlyle, transl., Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels, book 4, New York: A.L. Burt, translation of original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published 1839, pages...

uproar meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

uproar in Hindi

noisy excitement
ऊधम ūdham, ख़ुराफ़ात xurāfāt, बवाल bavāl, हल्ला hallā, कोलाहल kolāhal, हुड़दंग huṛdaṅg
confused noise
ऊधम ūdham, ख़ुराफ़ात xurāfāt, बवाल bavāl, हल्ला hallā, कोलाहल kolāhal

uproar in Tamil

noisy excitement
கலகம் kalakam
confused noise
கலகம் kalakam

uproar in Marathi

uproar, charivari, commotion, tumult
कोलाहल kolāhal
uproar, hubbub, tumult
गोंगाट goṅgāṭ

uproar in Urdu

noisy excitement
ادھم udḥam
confused noise
ادھم udḥam
More languagesFewer languages
uproar in Bengali
তুলকালাম tulkalam, চিল্লানি cillani
uproar in Telugu
కోలాహలము kōlāhalamu
uproar in Malayalam
ഒച്ചപ്പാട്, ലഹള, വാഗ്വാദം
uproar in Kannada
ಭಾರೀ ಹುಯಿಲು, ಕೋಲಾಹಲ, ಗಲಭೆ, ಗೊಂದಲ
uproar in Punjabi
ਕੁਲਾਹਲ kulāhal, باگھا bāghā, ਘੜਮੱਸ ghaṛmassa, قیامت qiyāmat
uproar in Gujarati
હંગામો haṅgāmo
uproar in Sanskrit
कोलाहल kolāhala

Examples of uproar in a sentence

  • Hence the uproar over the Olympia Food Co-op's institutional boycott of Israeli products through deshelving.
  • They tormented their venerable grandmother with their shrill uproar and tricky behaviour.
  • The conservative legal scholars Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule thought that the uproar was all just 'tyrannophobic' nonsense.

All 11 example sentences with uproar

Synonyms of uproar

Forms of uproar

Noun
pluraluproars
Verb
third-person singular presentuproars
present participleuproaring
past participleuproared
pastuproared

Plural of uproar: uproars

Origin of uproar

Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr, as up + roar.

Words formed from uproar

Phrases with uproar

Questions about uproar

What does uproar mean?
Uproar means tumultuous, noisy excitement.
What is uproar in Hindi?
Uproar in Hindi is ऊधम (ūdham), ख़ुराफ़ात (xurāfāt), बवाल (bavāl). See Uproar meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is uproar?
Uproar can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce uproar?
Uproar is pronounced /ˈʌpɹɔː/ (UK).
What is the plural of uproar?
The plural of uproar is uproars.

Words near uproar in the dictionary

  1. uprising
  2. uprisings
  3. uprist
  4. uprists
  5. upriver
  6. uproar
  7. uproared
  8. uproaring
  9. uproaringly
  10. uproarious
  11. uproariously

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: uproar (page history and authors); कोलाहल (Marathi) (page history and authors); కోలాహలము (Telugu) (page history and authors); uproar (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); uproar (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); باگھا (Punjabi) (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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