booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving
(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”
roaring
(adverb) extremely; “roaring drunk”
bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl
(noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); “his bellow filled the hallway”
boom, roar, roaring, thunder
(noun) a deep prolonged loud noise
Source: WordNet® 3.1
roaring
Intensive; extreme.
Very successful; lively.
Synonyms: thriving, prosperous, bustling, Thesaurus:prosperous
roaring
present participle of roar
roaring (plural roarings)
A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.
(British Yorkshire, North Midlands, informal) to cry
Source: Wiktionary
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.
2. (Far.)
Definition: 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.
Roar, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roared; p. pr. & vvb. n. Roaring.] Etym: [OE. roren, raren, AS. rarian; akin to G. röhten, OHG. r. sq. root112.]
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. Roaring bulls he would him make to tame. Spenser.
(b) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger. Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief. Dryden. He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger. South.
2. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like. The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar. Milton. How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar. Gay.
3. To be boisterous; to be disorderly. It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance. Bp. Burnet.
4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
5. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2. 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 40Âş and 50Âş north latitude.
Roar, v. t.
Definition: To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly. This last action will roar thy infamy. Ford.
Roar, n.
Definition: The sound of roaring. Specifically: (a) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion. (b) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like. (c) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean. Arm! arm! it is, it is the cannon's opening roar! Byron.
(d) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth. Pit, boxes, and galleries were in a constant roar of laughter. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 January 2025
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
