blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor, din
(noun) a loud harsh or strident noise
blast, blare
(verb) make a strident sound; “She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone”
honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot
(verb) make a loud noise; “The horns of the taxis blared”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
blare (countable and uncountable, plural blares)
A loud sound.
Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
blare (third-person singular simple present blares, present participle blaring, simple past and past participle blared)
(intransitive) To make a loud sound.
(transitive) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
• Alber, Baler, Laber, Rabel, abler, baler, belar, blear
Source: Wiktionary
Blare, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blared; p. pr. & vb. n. Blaring.] Etym: [OE. blaren, bloren, to cry, woop; cf. G. plärren to bleat, D. blaren to bleat, cry, weep. Prob. an imitative word, but cf. also E. blast. Cf. Blore.]
Definition: To sound loudly and somewhat harshly. "The trumpet blared." Tennyson.
Blare, v. t.
Definition: To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly. To blare its own interpretation. Tennyson.
Blare, n.
Definition: The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing. With blare of bugle, clamor of men. Tennyson. His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. J. R. Drake.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 June 2025
(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
