shout

1 of 2

verb

shouted; shouting; shouts

intransitive verb

1
: to utter a sudden loud cry
2
: to command attention as if by shouting
a quality that shouts from good novelsJohn Gardner

transitive verb

1
: to utter in a loud voice
2
: to cause to be, come, or stop by or as if by shouting
shouted himself hoarse
the proponents shouted down the opposition
shouter noun

shout

2 of 2

noun

: a loud cry or call

Examples of shout in a Sentence

Verb There's no need to shout at me. well-wishers shouted to departing passengers from the dock Noun I gave a sudden shout of surprise when the shower abruptly turned ice-cold.
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Lopez shouts in the dramatic footage that shows her vessel going down. Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024 Undeterred, one man began the call to prayer, at times barely audible over the sound of sirens and horns along the street, buses trundling past and the police shouting. Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024 In December 2023, the family’s matching moment in white button-down shirts and dark pants didn’t deter royal watchers from shouting out discrepancies in the studio shot. Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024 Instead of a policy-heavy laundry list speech, the president leaned into politics, and at times, shouted and amped up Democrats with some fiery rhetoric. Deirdre Walsh, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024 Workers at the airport were also subjected to slurs from passing motorists shouting through megaphones. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024 On Monday, remarks at the conference by Barak Regev, managing director of Google Israel, were disrupted by a Google Cloud software engineer shouting that his work should not be used in service of surveillance and genocide. Caroline Haskins, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2024 This isn’t the first time Spice shouts out Del Rey in an interview. Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2024 Gazing out over the river, Trump raised his fist and waved and shouted to people on the Mexico side, who waved back. Seung Min Kim, arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2024
Noun
Publicists, agents, lawyers and even a stylist got a shout out on the Oscars stage on Sunday night, leaving tax preparers out in the cold. Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2024 Venet was also quickly escorted out amid shouts from crowd members. Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2024 Pelphrey finally let out a shout and laughed as Matilda, fed up with the chase, scurried off. Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024 Alton is also open to AI tools that reduce some of the most physically straining work in creating game characters — the grunts, shouts and other sounds of characters in battle, as well as the movements of jumping, striking, falling and dying required in motion-capture scenes. Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024 The 28-year-old gave a shout out to husband Patrick, also 28, in a post on Friday, sharing her gratitude for the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback's support in her first SI photoshoot, after she was unveiled as a 2024 Rookie on Thursday. Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024 With his voice rising to a shout, the judge pointed to photos in evidence showing members of Johnson’s crew wearing gas masks while mixing drugs. Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2024 Shortly after the shout, the animal appears to reach the bottom of the slope and enters an area filled with trees. Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024 One, a riff on doubles, is a shout out to street food and Trinidad: chickpeas jazzed up with cumin, ginger and fenugreek and piled atop a crisp-chewy saucer of fried plantains. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024

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Word History

Etymology

Verb

Middle English

First Known Use

Verb

14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of shout was in the 14th century

Dictionary Entries Near shout

Cite this Entry

“Shout.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shout. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

shout

1 of 2 verb
1
: to utter a sudden loud cry
shouted for joy
2
: to utter in a loud voice
shouted out the answers
shouter noun

shout

2 of 2 noun
: a loud cry or call

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