Definition of Shout

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Definition of Shout

Shout

To entertain with refreshments or the like gratuitously; to treat.

To treat (one) to something; also, to give (something) by way of treating.

A gratuitous entertainment, with refreshments or the like; a treat.

To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.

To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.

To treat with shouts or clamor.

A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially of a multitudes expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.

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Shout Quotations

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
Benito Mussolini

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
Richard M. Nixon

A yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walker

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
George Will

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.
Laurence J. Peter

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
Mother Jones

Shout Translations

shout in Afrikaans is skreeu
shout in Dutch is joelen, roepen, schreeuwen, gieren
shout in Finnish is huutaa
shout in French is cri, jacasser, crient, criez, crions
shout in German is Schrei, Zuruf
shout in Italian is esclamare, gridare, grido
shout in Latin is clamo, vociferor
shout in Norwegian is skrike
shout in Spanish is clamar, grito, exclamar

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