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• n  a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
  his bellow filled the hallway
• n  United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005)
• v  shout loudly and without restraint
• v  make a loud noise, as of animal
  The bull bellowed

• The heart is self-evidently a pump; the lungs are clearly bellows.

• bellowing
• holla
• holler
• hollering
• hollo
• holloa
• roar
• roaring
• yowl
• Bellow
• Saul Bellow
• Solomon Bellow
• bawl

News & Articles

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• Today in history: June 15, 2013
  In 1913: Ten barrels of Bohemian beer arrived in Happy Camp by pack train the previous Saturday night. The next day everybody in the town was drunk, five or six men and a few boys excepted. As a climax, Will Bellew took five shots at N.B. Baker. Bellow was of unsteady aim and he missed Baker every time.
  June 15, 2013 - The Record Searchlight

Quotes

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• Philip Roth in FOXNews
  To my mind, Saul Bellow and William Faulkner form the backbone of 20th-century American literature,Roth said in a statement given to The Associated Press.
• Jonathan Franzen in USA Today
  The extreme margins of the stable, familiar world of Saul Bellow - and of most novelists, including me - are at the extreme normal end of Mr. Purdy's world,Franzen said during a formal ceremony in Manhattan. "He takes up where the rest of...