bellow

1. 1.

   shout loudly and without restraint

   Synonymsbawl

   Broadershout
2. 2.

   make a loud noise, as of animal

   “The bull bellowed”

   Synonymsroar

   Broaderutter

Other forms of bellow

plural

bellows·

past tense

bellowed·

present participle

bellowing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bellow

What does bellow mean?

bellow means "a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bellow?

bellow has 2 syllables: bel-low. The stress falls on "bel". In IPA it is /ˈbɛloʊ/.

What is another word for bellow?

Close synonyms include bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bellow a common word?

bellow is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.