Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Rough-sounding and harsh.
- adjective Boisterous and disorderly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hoarse; harsh; croaking in sound: as, a raucous voice or cry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Hoarse; harsh; rough.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Harsh andrough -sounding . - adjective
Disorderly andboisterous . - adjective
loud andannoying
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disturbing the public peace; loud and rough
- adjective unpleasantly loud and harsh
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dimitri joined his retinue of eleven men in raucous laughter as bullets impacted armour and fell to the ground as harmless lumps of jacketed lead.
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Dimitri joined his retinue of eleven men in raucous laughter as bullets impacted armour and fell to the ground as harmless lumps of jacketed lead.
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Set in raucous Dawson at the height of the stampede, Jack Harrington, the Mastadon King, falls for Lucille, a "dainty arctic princess."
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Ryan Hollweg also scored, for his first point of the season, and newly acquired Sean Avery added a goal, as did Marcel Hossa and Jaromir Jagr in raucous Madison Square Garden.
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He came to the Vatican by way of Boston, where he was known as a raucous but brilliant student at Harvard and an even more brilliant priest and professor of American history at Boston College.
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Already a huge underdog in raucous Camp Randall Stadium, the
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Back in raucous Arco Arena, Bibby found things more to his liking.
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Already a huge underdog in raucous Camp Randall Stadium, the
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Ginepri kept his long locks, but he did join raucous pingpong and arcade games during the week.
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Back then, he was mostly known as a raucous, money loving party boy.
Karen Salmansohn: Laugh Your Way Through This Financial Crisis 2009
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Squawking birds and raucous insects fly about.
- William Steig, The Zabajaba Jungle
October 5, 2008