BOOM • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Boom

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bum/ Listen

Boom

noun

1.

A deep prolonged loud noise. Synonyms: roar, roaring, thunder.

2.

A state of economic prosperity.

3.

A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money). Synonyms: bonanza, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall.

4.

A pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set. Synonym: microphone boom.

5.

Any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring.

verb

(past & past part. boomed, pres. part. booming)

1.

Make a resonant sound, like artillery. Synonym: din.

2.

Hit hard. Synonyms: blast, nail, smash.

3.

Be the case that thunder is being heard. Synonym: thunder.

4.

Make a deep hollow sound. Synonym: boom out.

5.

Grow vigorously. Synonyms: expand, flourish, thrive. "Business is booming"

See more definitions of Boom...

See images of 'Boom'

Etymology of 'Boom'

Related searches:

baby-boom generation

microphone boom

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

"Boom" Quotes from Famous Books

... Theodore Roosevelt, and ran toward his horse, when boom! came another explosion, and one of the bullets fell upon his wrist, making, as he himself says, "a bump about as big as a hickory nut." This same shell, he adds, wounded four of the men under him and two or three regulars, one of whom lost his leg. Certainly another providential ...

— American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt • Edward Stratemeyer

... blood!), led to the scaffold... a scene unparalleled in Europe for over a century! ... Then he gazed anew at the sick man, and thought he saw death in every drawn feature of that agonized face. He could have screamed aloud. His ears heard a peculiar resonant boom. He started—it was nothing but the city clock striking twelve. But there was another sound—a mysterious shuffle at the door. He listened; then jumped from his chair. Nothing now! Nothing! But still he felt drawn to ...

— The Grand Babylon Hotel • Arnold Bennett

... awhile! Listen awhile, and come. Down in the street there are marching feet, and I hear the beat of a drum. Bim! Boom!! Out of the room! Pick up your hat and fly! Isn't it grand? The band! The band! The ...

— A Book for Kids • C. J. (Clarence Michael James) Dennis

... bray! Tantantara! Proudly bang the sounding brasses! Tzing! Boom! As upon its lordly way This unique procession passes, Tantantara! Tzing! Boom! Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses! Blow the trumpets, bang the brasses! Tantantara! Tzing! Boom! We are peers of highest station, Paragons of legislation, Pillars of the ...

— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

... phase of that campaign, a series of incidents in a mighty struggle which neither began in July 1914 nor will end with the close of hostilities, but will rage on for years to come in less sanguinary but more decisive forms. For the future peace—whatever its terms—which will silence the cannon's boom, will but transfer the war theatre without ending the war. The methods will be changed from military to economic. But only the weapons will be different; the military discipline, the callous indifference to the dictates ...

— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon

Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com