adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 making a continuous loud deep noise:
All we could hear was the sound of roaring water.
2 (of a fire) burning with a lot of flames and heat:
There was a roaring fire was in the grate, piled high with logs.
IDIOMS
do a roaring trade (in sth) (informal) to sell a lot of sth very quickly:
The ice cream vendors were doing a roaring trade.
roaring drunk extremely drunk and noisy:
He rolled home roaring drunk at 3 o'clock in the morning.
a roaring success (informal) a very great success:
The latest Disneyland has been a roaring success.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for roaring is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does roaring appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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