furore
fu·rore
noun \ˈfyu̇r-ˌȯr, -ər, especially British fyu̇-ˈrȯ-ri\Definition of FURORE
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: furor 3
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: furor 4b
Examples of FURORE
- <the store's going-out-of-business sale caused such a furore that security guards had to be called in to restore order>
- <baseball fans in a furore as the game stretched to 11 innings>
Origin of FURORE
Italian, from Latin furor
First Known Use: 1790
Related to FURORE
- Synonyms
- ado, alarums and excursions, ballyhoo, blather, bluster, bobbery, bother, bustle, clatter, clutter [chiefly dialect], coil, corroboree [Australian], disturbance, do [chiefly dialect], foofaraw, fun, furor, commotion, fuss, helter-skelter, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hoopla, hubble-bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry, hurry-scurry (or hurry-skurry), kerfuffle [chiefly British], moil, pandemonium, pother, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, splore [Scottish], squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar, welter, whirl, williwaw, zoo
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