'Roaring' definitions:

Definition of 'roaring'

(from WordNet)
adverb
Extremely; "roaring drunk"
adjective
Very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids" [syn: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving]
noun
A deep prolonged loud noise [syn: boom, roar, roaring, thunder]
noun
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway" [syn: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl]

Definition of 'Roaring'

From: GCIDE
  • Roar \Roar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roared; p. pr. & vvb. n. Roaring.] [OE. roren, raren, AS. r[=a]rian; akin to G. r["o]hten, OHG. r[=e]r[=e]n. [root]112.]
  • 1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically: (a) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast. [1913 Webster]
  • Roaring bulls he would him make to tame. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] (b) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger. [1913 Webster]
  • Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like. [1913 Webster]
  • The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar. --Gay. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To be boisterous; to be disorderly. [1913 Webster]
  • It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2. [1913 Webster]
  • Roaring boy, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. "Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split." --Beau. & Fl.
  • Roaring forties (Naut.), a sailor's name for the stormy tract of ocean between 40[deg] and 50[deg] north latitude. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Roaring'

From: GCIDE
  • Roaring \Roar"ing\, n.
  • 1. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Far.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'roaring'

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