Crossword clues for ululation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ululation \Ul`u*la"tion\, n. [L. ululatio.] A howling, as of a dog or wolf; a wailing.
He may fright others with his ululation.
--Wither.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin ululationem (nominative ululatio) "a howling or wailing," noun of action from past participle stem of ululare "to howl, yell, shriek, wail, lament loudly," from a reduplicated imitative root (cognates: Greek ololyzein "to cry aloud," Sanskrit ululih "a howling," Lithuanian uluti "howl," Gaelic uileliugh "wail of lamentation," Old English ule "owl").
Wiktionary
n. A long, loud, mournful cry or howl.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "ululation".
He went to the edge of the bank and, lifting his head, began a series of yips that led into a heart-stopping ululation of wolf song.
Here I fell into a minute or two of insensate ululation, for at the mention of the King of Goimr, the two policemen applying the bastinadoes had fallen into a truly vigorous beating of my feet.
I was still in the middle of my ululation when I caught sight of the figure in the pentacle opposite, and was completely put off my stroke.
In that heart-stopping ululation of the blood trill, the invocation to violence that the heart of the African warrior cannot resist, the sound struck the jostling press of Gallas like a whip, stroke and their bodies convulsed and their voices rose in an answering blood roar.
First, by means of dance and ululation, she put the spectators into an hypnoidal state of tense observation.
As they closed in they could hear the outcry coming from the encampment, the screams and the wailing, the wild, triumphant ululations of the Nguni as they plied the assegai and the kerrie.
Cail snatched her upright again like the shout which jerked across the Sandwall, piercing the ululation of the sirens anharmonically.
Somehow undamaged in the holocaust, the windhorn was still making contact and its ululations were going on up to the sky, stridently clearing imaginary roads for the passage of Attaboy II—‘Pom-pim-pom-pam.
Somehow undamaged in the holocaust, the windhorn was still making contact and its ululations were going on up to the sky, stridently clearing imaginary roads for the passage of Attaboy II-'Pom-pim-pom-pam.
A ululation, a many voiced chanting, drifted across the befogging field.
It was also because of the radio that she discovered that there were beautiful songs for women, and she sang `O Mio Babbino Carol at the top of her voice as she scrubbed the floor on her hands and knees, investing it with oriental microtones and adorning it with ululations, thus abnegating in the very attempt her project of becoming Italian.
Making a most peculiar-sounding ululation, Teddy climbed out of the aircraft almost before it had set down and hurtled towards his dam.
Up in one of the trees, an invisible creature voiced a complex warbling ululation having a frequency between two thousand and four thousand cycles per second.
The sounds she emitted were ghastly ululations in weird dissonances, like throat-cut shrieks.
Helva, already confused, did not at first catch the significance of the gas or the fact that the ululation was reaching her ship's outer ears, not issuing from the dumb contact circuits.