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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bleatverb

    the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)

  2. bleatverb

    talk whiningly

  3. bleat, blate, blat, baaverb

    cry plaintively

    "The lambs were bleating"

Wiktionary

  1. bleatnoun

    The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.

  2. bleatverb

    Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry.

  3. bleatverb

    Of a person, to complain.

    The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.

  4. Etymology: Germanic, whence also Old High German bloz, Old Norse blautr. More at blouse.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Bleatnoun

    The cry of a sheep or lamb.

    Etymology: from the verb.

    Set in my ship, mine ear reach’d, where we rod,
    The bellowing of oxen, and the bleat
    Of fleecy sheep. George Chapman, Odyssey, b. xii.

    The rivers and their hills around,
    With lowings, and with dying bleats resound. Dryden.

  2. To Bleatverb

    To cry as a sheep.

    Etymology: blætan, Sax.

    We were as twinn’d lambs, that did frisk i’ th’ sun,
    And bleat the one at th’ other. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

    You may as well use question with the wolf,
    Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

    While on sweet grass her bleating charge does lie,
    Our happy lover feeds upon her eye. Wentworth Dillon.

    What bull dares bellow, or what sheep dares bleat
    Within the lion’s den? John Dryden, Spanish Friar.

ChatGPT

  1. bleat

    Bleat refers to the characteristic noise made by a sheep, goat, or calf. It can also be used metaphorically to describe a person's weak, complaining cry.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bleatverb

    to make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf

  2. Bleatnoun

    a plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bleat

    blēt, v.i. to cry as a sheep.—n. the cry of a sheep, any similar cry, even of the human voice.—n. Bleat′ing, the cry of a sheep. [A.S. blǽtan; L. balāre, Gr. blēchē, a bleating; root bla-; formed from the sound.]

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Anagrams for bleat »

  1. ablet

  2. blate

  3. table

  4. batel

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bleat in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bleat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of bleat in a Sentence

  1. Malayan Proverb:

    Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

  2. Malayan Proverb:

    Trumpet in a herd of elephants crow in the company of cocks bleat in a flock of goats.

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