Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Noisy and insistent; vociferous.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Clamorous; noisy; vociferous.
  • noun One who is clamorous; one given to vociferation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Noisy; clamorous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Noisy; clamorous

Etymologies

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Latin vociferans, present participle

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Examples

  • The night life of any dockside is as vociferant as the day.

    Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

  • Some other friend had given his boys a "vociferant burro."

    Songs and Other Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • And with this, she snatched the cloth from the boy's hands, shook first him and then his frock, to get rid, in so far as a shake might accomplish it, of original depravity and sandy soapsuds, and carried him, vociferant, to the door, where she set him down to the consolation of gravel pudding again.

    Faith Gartney's Girlhood 1865

  • Ye-e-e-es … the vociferant voices of African leaders 'protestations.

    tHiNkEr'S rOoM 2008

  • Ye-e-e-es … the vociferant voices of African leaders 'protestations.

    tHiNkEr'S rOoM 2008

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