n. 1 sound, clamour, crash, clap, clash, clangour, din, thunder, thundering, rumble, rumbling, outcry, hubbub, uproar, hullabaloo, racket, charivari or US and Canadian also shivaree, rattle, caterwauling, rumpus, blare, blast, blasting, bawling, babel; commotion, bedlam, fracas, tumult, pandemonium, turmoil; discordance, dissonance, cacophony; Archaic alarms or alarums and excursions, Colloq ruckus, ruction, ballyhoo I couldn't sleep because of the unbearable noise from the party next door You may call acid rock music, but she calls it noise. 2 sound, disturbance Did you just hear that strange noise? It's only the noise of the crickets
v. 3 Often, noise about or around. circulate, spread, rumour, bruit (about) It is being noised about that John and Marsha are getting a divorce