yell
/jɛl/
yell verb: to shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
Verb
yell (third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled)
- To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
- To convey by shouting.
- He yelled directions to the party from the car.
- To tell someone off, to scold or rebuke, typically in a loud and angry manner.
- If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.
- They sent another email yelling at us to get our reports in on time. (or) They sent another email yelling about how we had to get our reports in on time.
Noun
yell (plural yells)
- A shout.
- A phrase to be shouted.
- After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings[…]1912, The Michigan Alumnus, volume 18, page 152
Adjective
yell (not comparable)
- dry (of cow)
Proper noun capitalized: Yell
Yell
- The second-largest island in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland.
- An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee, United States, named after Archibald Yell.
- A surname.
yell meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
yell in Hindi
- shout (verb)
- चिल्लाना cillānā
yell in Tamil
- கூக்குரல், கூச்சலிடு, கத்து
yell in Urdu
- shout (verb)
- چلانا cillānā
yell in Bengali
- চিৎকার করা, ডাকাডাকি করা
More languagesFewer languages
- yell in Malayalam
- അയർക്കുക ayaṟkkuka, ആർക്കുക āṟkkuka
- yell in Kannada
- ಕೂಗು, ಒರಲು, ಕಿರಿಚು, ನೋವಿನಿಂದ ಚೀರು
- yell in Sanskrit
- क्रोश krośa
- yell in Assamese
- চিঞৰা siõra, চিঞৰ siõr
- yell in Arabic
- صَاحَ ṣāḥa
- yell in Thai
- ตะโกน dtà-goon
- yell in Vietnamese
- la hét
Examples of yell in a sentence
- Nobody likes to receive an email yelling 'ASAP' right in the subject line.2020 August 12, Nils van Dam, Dado Van Peteghem, Metasystems: How trust can change the world, Die Keure Publishing, →ISBN:
- that uncle sent some … email yelling about how changing the name of Fort Bragg was outrageous2023 November 10, "TalkThirtyToMe", Instagram post
Synonyms of yell
Forms of yell
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | yells |
| present participle | yelling |
| past participle | yelled |
| past | yelled |
| Noun | |
| plural | yells |
Origin of yell
From Middle English ȝellen, yellen, from Old English ġiellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellaną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”).
Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).
The name of the Shetland Island is from Pictish, cognate with Welsh iâl (“pastureland”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *yalom (“clearing”).
Words formed from yell
Phrases with yell
Words that rhyme with yell
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hell
- hotel
- repel
- smell
- cartel
- dell
- pell
- quell
- as well
- au naturel
- dwell
- expel
- fell
- gel
- La Rochelle
- lol
- oversell
- stell
- wel
- ABDL
- dispel
- ell
- kell
- knell
- mell
- personnel
- quenelle
- snell
- undersell
- belle
- death knell
- del
- farewell
- flotel
- foretell
- gazelle
- impel
- mademoiselle
- marcel
- mel
- morell
- Moselle
- motel
- NFL
- overswell
- propel
- pucelle
- rappel
Questions about yell
- What does yell mean?
- Yell means to shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
- What is yell in Hindi?
- Yell in Hindi is चिल्लाना (cillānā). See Yell meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use yell in a sentence?
- Nobody likes to receive an email yelling 'ASAP' right in the subject line.
- What part of speech is yell?
- Yell can be a verb, a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce yell?
- Yell is pronounced /jɛl/.
- What is the past tense of yell?
- The past tense of yell is yelled.
Words near yell in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: yell (page history and authors); Yell (page history and authors); yell (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yell (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അയർക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); yell (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); চিঞৰ (Assamese) (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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