ululant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A fiendish and ululant corpse-gurgle or death-rattle now split the very atmosphere — the charnel atmosphere poisonous with naphtha and bitumen blasts — in one concerted chorus from the ghoulish legion of hybrid blasphemies."
- "At the Bohemian Grove, Sonoma County, in some years its notes occasionally may be distinguished during intervals in the ululant chorus that resounds through the woods of a summer night — after the Bohemians have ceased ululating."
- "With a rumble of hooves and an ululant war cry, the double column broke into a gallop the stone bridge just as the first German dive-bombers appeared overhead."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ululāns
Inflected Forms
more ululant (comparative)
most ululant (superlative)