Soar
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soar¹
- /sɔː/ UK
- /soː/ Australia, British, New Zealand, Southern, Standard
- /soɹ/ US
- /soɾ/ Scotland
- /soː/
- /soə/ Eastern New England
- /soɹ/ US, archaic
- /sɔə/ UK, obsolete
Sounds like sore, saw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger), sower (rare pronunciation) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English soren, from Old French essorer (“to fly up, soar”), from Vulgar Latin *exaurare (“to rise into the air”), from Latin ex (“out”) + aura (“the air, a breeze”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breath”). Compare aura, and exhale.
verb soars · soaring · soared
- To fly high with little effort, like a bird. When soars Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurl'd,
- To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
- To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
- To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high. The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.
- To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood. Such where the deep tranſported mind may ſoare / Above the wheeling poles,
- To increase rapidly in number, volume, size, or amount.
noun soars
- The act of soaring. c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor this apparent soar of the hooded falcon
- An upward flight.
Soar²
- /sɔː(ɹ)/
Sounds like sore, saw (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, run”), similar to the Latin river name Saravus and Sar in Spain.
proper noun
- A river in Leicestershire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
