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Shouting   /ʃˈaʊtɪŋ/   Listen
Shouting

noun
1.
Encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators.  Synonym: cheering.
2.
Uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement.  Synonym: yelling.



Shout

verb
(past & past part. shouted; pres. part. shouting)
1.
Utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking).
2.
Utter a sudden loud cry.  Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell.  "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"
3.
Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy.  Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry.  "'Help!' she cried" , "'I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost"
4.
Use foul or abusive language towards.  Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw.  "The angry mother shouted at the teacher"



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"Shouting" Quotes from Famous Books



... followed, beating the laggards with their bows, shouting exultantly. Billy caught Lydia round the waist and held her in front of him as well as he could, and for a few moments the rush of the mob carried ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow

... enough, poor Featherhead ran distracted with terror up and down, through the bundles of hay, between barrels, and over casks, but with the barking terrier ever at his heels, and the boys running, shouting, and cheering his pursuer on. He was glad at last to escape through a crack, though he left half of his fine brush behind him; for Master Wasp the terrier made a snap at it just as he was going, ...
— Queer Little Folks • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... hilt of the sword. And in this wise Wigg clasped the hilt, and then drove the point through Hiartuar; thus gaining the vengeance which he had promised Rolf to accomplish for him. When he had done this, and the soldiers of Hiartuar rushed at him, he exposed his body to them eagerly and exultantly, shouting that he felt more joy in the slaughter of the tyrant than bitterness at his own. Thus the feast was turned into a funeral, and the wailing of burial followed the joy of victory. Glorious, ever memorable hero, who valiantly kept his vow, and voluntarily courted death, ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... The dust, the reek, the vibration, the pandemonium, were combining to create an atmosphere worthy of a place in the Litany. One's senses were cuffed and buffeted almost to a standstill. I remember vaguely that Daphne was clinging to my arm, wailing that "it was no good." I know I was shouting. Berry was howling abusive incoherence in ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates

... her forefeet, and dipped her head for a push, but catching another small whack on her face, and more authoritative "Shoos!" she changed her mind, and swinging heavily round, trotted off towards the field, followed by Jem, waving, shouting, and victorious. My mother got out in time to help him to fasten the gate, which he was much too small to do by himself, though, with true squirely instincts, he was trying ...
— We and the World, Part I - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing


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