Definitions for blares

blares blare

Spelling: [blair]
IPA: /blɛər/

Blares is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in blares (abelrs).

Definitions for blares

noun

  1. a loud, raucous noise:
  2. glaring intensity of light or color:
  3. fanfare; flourish; ostentation; flamboyance:
  4. Eastern New England. the bawl of a calf.

verb (used with object)

  1. to sound loudly; proclaim noisily:

verb (used without object)

  1. to emit a loud, raucous sound:

Origin of blares

1400-50; late Middle English bleren; akin to Middle Dutch blaren, Middle Low German blarren, Middle High German blerren (German plärren)

Examples for blares

I crept to the door: the organ broke out overhead with a blare.

He fidgeted; tried three times—unsuccessfully—to blare defiance.

There were the almost deafening salutes and the blare of the band.

The gates were wide open, and from within came a blare of trumpets.

A night of Nature's making when she is tired of noise and blare of color.

A night of Nature's making, when she is tired of noise and blare of color.

She made no answer except by 'a blare with a trumpet to each discharge.'

Suddenly the blare of a trumpet was heard in the court below.

What signifies the blare of your brass, or the bilious bleating of your wood-wind!

I thought she was when I saw her nearly go off at the blare of the cow.

Word Value for blares
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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