SHOUT


Meaning of SHOUT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃaʊt ]

( shouts, shouting, shouted)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

If you shout , you say something very loudly, usually because you want people a long distance away to hear you or because you are angry.

He had to shout to make himself heard above the near gale-force wind...

‘She’s alive!’ he shouted triumphantly...

Andrew rushed out of the house, shouting for help...

You don’t have to shout at me...

I shouted at mother to get the police...

The driver managed to escape from the vehicle and shout a warning.

VERB : V , V with quote , V for n , V at n , V at n to-inf , V n

Shout is also a noun.

The decision was greeted with shouts of protest from opposition MPs...

I heard a distant shout.

N-COUNT

2.

If you say that someone is in with a shout of achieving or winning something, you mean that they have a chance of achieving or winning it. ( INFORMAL )

He knew he was be in with a shout of making Craig Brown’s squad for Japan.

PHRASE

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