Hurrah
[hʊ'rɑː] or [hə'rɑ]
Definition
(noun.) a victory cheer; 'let's give the team a big hurrah'.
(verb.) shout `hurrah!'.
Checker: Lola--From WordNet
Definition
(interj.) Alt. of Hurra
(n.) A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.
(v. i.) To utter hurrahs; to huzza.
(v. t.) To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.
Checker: Roderick
Synonyms and Synonymous
interj. Huzza.
Checked by Edwin
Examples
- As the fly passed the group which had run out from the homestead they shouted Hurrah! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Hurrah for impudence! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Hurrah for the madhouse! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He clapped his hands; I have done it this time--hurrah! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Hurrah for Miss March, the celebrated American authoress! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But the Fourth of July was the great hurrah time of the year, when every youth who owned a gun or could borrow one, brought it into use as a contribution to the general noise. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And then we all waved our swords and hurrahed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Typist: Phil