Definitions for soar
sɔr, soʊrsoar

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.3 / 4 votes

1. soar, zoomverb

   the act of rising upward into the air

2. soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoomverb

   rise rapidly

   "the dollar soared against the yen"

3. hang glide, soarverb

   fly by means of a hang glider

4. soarverb

   fly upwards or high in the sky

5. soarverb

   go or move upward

   "The stock market soared after the cease-fire was announced"

6. sailplane, soarverb

   fly a plane without an engine

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. soarnoun

   The act of soaring.

   This apparent soar of the hooded falcon. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

2. soarnoun

   An upward flight.

3. soarverb

   To fly aloft with little effort, as a bird.

   When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled. Byron.

4. soarverb

   To mount upward on wings, or as on wings.

5. soarverb

   To fly by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.

6. soarverb

   To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.

   The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.

7. soarverb

   To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.

8. Etymology: From s'essorer, essorer, from ex + aura, from αὔρα. Compare aura, and exhale.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Soarnoun

   Towering flight.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   Within soar
   Of tow’ring eagles, to all the fowls he seems
   A phœnix. John Milton.

2. To Soarverb

   Etymology: sorare, Italian.

   1. To fly aloft; to tower; to mount; properly to fly without any visible action of the wings.

   Feather’d soon and fledg’d,
   They summ’d their pens, and soaring th’ air sublime,
   With clang despis’d the ground. John Milton.

   2. To mount intellectually; to tower with the mind.

   ’Tis but a base ignoble mind
   That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. William Shakespeare.

   How high a pitch his resolution soars. William Shakespeare.

   Valour soars above
   What the world calls misfortune and afflictions. Addison.

   3. To rise high.

   Who aspires must down as low
   As high he soar’d. John Milton.

   Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar
   In one bright blaze, and then descend no more. Dryden.

   When swallows fleet soar high, and sport in air,
   He told us that the welkin would be clear. John Gay.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Soarverb

   to fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings

2. Soarverb

   fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood

3. Soarnoun

   the act of soaring; upward flight

4. Soaradjective

   see 3d Sore

5. Soaradjective

   see Sore, reddish brown

6. Etymology: [F. s'essorer to soar, essorer to dry (by exposing to the air), fr. L. ex out + aura the air, a breeze; akin to Gr. .]

FreebaseRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Soar

   Soar is a cognitive architecture, created by John Laird, Allen Newell, and Paul Rosenbloom at Carnegie Mellon University, now maintained by John Laird's research group at the University of Michigan. It is both a view of what cognition is and an implementation of that view through a computer programming architecture for Artificial Intelligence. Since its beginnings in 1983 and its presentation in a paper in 1987, it has been widely used by AI researchers to model different aspects of human behavior.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Soar

   sōr, v.i. to mount into the air: to fly aloft: to rise to a height, also mentally or morally.—n. act of soaring: the height reached in soaring.—adjs. Soar′ant (her.), flying aloft; Soar′ing.—adv. Soar′ingly, having an upward direction. [O. Fr. essorer, to expose to air—L. ex, out of, aura, air.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SOAR

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Soar is ranked #154907 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Soar surname appeared 105 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Soar.
   
   86.6% or 91 total occurrences were White.
   6.6% or 7 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Aviation
   • Fly
   • Glide
   • Rise

Anagrams for soar »

1. Rosa

2. sora

3. Sora

4. SORA

5. oars

6. asor

How to pronounce soar?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of soar in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of soar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of soar in a Sentence

1. Austin Police Department:

   The lack of cadet classes at APD over the last couple of years has contributed to an officer staffing shortage, in order to prioritize the Department’s ability to respond to 911 phone calls and keep the community safe, APD has had to reallocate some personnel from our support units back to patrol. The Sex Offender Apprehension and Registration Unit (SOAR) is one of the units affected by these staffing challenges and lost 3 officers who were re-assigned to patrol in the process. These officers’ duties and tasks while assigned to SOAR were to perform sex offender compliance checks, and to track down and arrest those with outstanding warrants. With the absence of these officers in the SOAR unit to assist with these tasks, the unit has limited capacity to perform these functions. There are currently 1 sergeant, 3 detectives, 1 full time civilian, and 2 part time civilians who now work in this unit.

2. Prashant Agarwal:

   To achieve big things in life, you don’t need to make huge sacrifices. What matters the most is your intention to make it big. When your intentions are strong, and you really truly intend to soar up and reach the sky, the universe opens its doors to you. With a powerful purpose in life, and a clear objective in sight, work towards your goal, and you are sure to achieve humongous success.

3. Shah Asad Rizvi:

   Soar like an eagle beyond the skies of heaven's reach; as the wings of dreams dance with the winds of reality

4. Charles R. Swindoll:

   People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

5. Brian Hansford:

   Desperate people resort to desperate measures and unfortunately ... the numbers are expected to continue to soar.

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