HOWL meaning: Loud, prolonged cry of wolf

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word HOWL:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

howl: Merriam-Webster
howl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
howl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
howl: Collins English Dictionary
howl: Vocabulary.com
Howl, howl: Wordnik
howl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
howl: Wiktionary
howl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
howl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
howl: Infoplease Dictionary
Howl, howl: Dictionary.com
howl (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
howl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Howl (American band), Howl (Biffy Clyro song), Howl (album), Howl (disambiguation), Howl (film), Howl (mascot), Howl (poem), Howl, The Howl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Howl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
howl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
howl: Rhymezone
howl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
howl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
howl: FreeDictionary.org
howl: Mnemonic Dictionary
howl: TheFreeDictionary.com
howl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

howl: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Howl (software), howl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

HOWL: Acronym Finder
howl: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

howl, howl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Howl: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (howl)

▸ noun:  The protracted, mournful cry of a dog, wolf or other canid; also of other animals.
▸ noun:  Any similar sound.
▸ noun:  A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
▸ verb:  To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
▸ verb:  To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
▸ verb:  To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
▸ verb:  To utter with outcry.

Similar:

ululate, yowl, wrawl, wail, yammer, roar, yawl, wauling, baying, wawling, more...

Opposite:

whimper, mewl, cry

Types:

baying, ululation, wailing, crying, screaming, more...

Phrases:

howl down, Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind, Howl and Other Poems, Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat, howl at the moon, more...

Adjectives:

long, mournful, loud, great, wild, dismal, low, drawn, distant, prolonged, terrible

Colors:

silver, gray, midnight blue, charcoal, black, more...