UPROAR

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud confused noise from many sources

Synonyms:

brouhaha; hubbub; katzenjammer; uproar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("uproar" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

uproarious (uncontrollably noisy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A state of commotion and noise and confusion

Synonyms:

garboil; tumult; tumultuousness; uproar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("uproar" is a kind of...):

commotion; disruption; disturbance; flutter; hoo-ha; hoo-hah; hurly burly; kerfuffle; to-do (a disorderly outburst or tumult)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uproar"):

combustion (a state of violent disturbance and excitement)

Derivation:

uproarious (uncontrollably noisy)

Credits

Context examples:

A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my friend’s arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sitting on the stairs outside Meg wondered at the long silence which followed the uproar, and after imagining all sorts of impossible accidents, she slipped into the room to set her fears at rest.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The play-hour in the evening I thought the pleasantest fraction of the day at Lowood: the bit of bread, the draught of coffee swallowed at five o'clock had revived vitality, if it had not satisfied hunger: the long restraint of the day was slackened; the schoolroom felt warmer than in the morning—its fires being allowed to burn a little more brightly, to supply, in some measure, the place of candles, not yet introduced: the ruddy gloaming, the licensed uproar, the confusion of many voices gave one a welcome sense of liberty.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The poor girl was almost distracted: that quarter of the palace was all in an uproar; the servants ran for ladders; the monkey was seen by hundreds in the court, sitting upon the ridge of a building, holding me like a baby in one of his forepaws, and feeding me with the other, by cramming into my mouth some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on one side of his chaps, and patting me when I would not eat; whereat many of the rabble below could not forbear laughing; neither do I think they justly ought to be blamed, for, without question, the sight was ridiculous enough to every body but myself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At last the uproar died away in three last, measured throbs, and ere their echo had ceased the Abbot struck a small gong which summoned a lay-brother to his presence.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then was added to the uproar the cub's shrill yelp of pain and fright.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

That greeting was, indeed, a frightful outburst of sound, the uproar of the carnivora cage when the step of the bucket-bearing keeper is heard in the distance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When midnight came, an uproar and noise of tumbling about was heard; at first it was low, but it grew louder and louder.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

If I could associate the idea of a bull or a bear with anyone so mild as Mr. Mell, I should think of him, in connexion with that afternoon when the uproar was at its height, as of one of those animals, baited by a thousand dogs.