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- 1. making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise: "raucous youths" Similar Opposite
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RAUCOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of raucous in English. raucous. adjective. uk / ˈrɔː.kəs / us / ˈrɑː.kəs / Add to word list. loud and unpleasant: I heard the raucous call of the crows. Raucous laughter came from the next room. The party was becoming rather raucous. Synonym. rowdy disapproving.
The meaning of RAUCOUS is disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse. How to use raucous in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Raucous.
adjective. us / ˈrɑː.kəs / uk / ˈrɔː.kəs / Add to word list. loud and unpleasant: I heard the raucous call of the crows. Raucous laughter came from the next room. The party was becoming rather raucous. Synonym. rowdy disapproving. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Describing qualities of sound. audibly. boomy. chocolatey. chuff. clomp.
A raucous sound is loud, harsh, and rather unpleasant. They heard a bottle being smashed, then more raucous laughter. American English : raucous / ˈrɔkəs /
Raucous means unpleasantly loud, or behaving in a noisy and disorderly way. It can be hard to give an oral report in the front of a classroom when the kids in the back are being raucous.
Definition of raucous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The earliest known use of the adjective raucous is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for raucous is from 1615, in the writing of Helkiah Crooke, physician and anatomist. raucous is a borrowing from Latin , combined with an English element.
adjective. uk / ˈrɔːkəs / us. Add to word list. loud and unpleasant: raucous laughter. (Definition of raucous from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of raucous. in Chinese (Traditional) （聲音）刺耳的，尖厲的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) （声音）刺耳的，尖厉的… See more. in Spanish. ronco, estridente, escandaloso…
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Define raucous. raucous synonyms, raucous pronunciation, raucous translation, English dictionary definition of raucous. adj. 1. Rough-sounding and harsh: raucous laughter. 2. Boisterous and disorderly: "a drunken and raucous party for his bachelor friends" . rau′cous·ly adv....
