Definition/Meaning of yell

• English - Verb: yell (third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled) (intransitive) To shout ; holler ; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement . (transitive) To convey by shouting. He yelled directions to the party from the car. (informal, usually, followed by at) To tell someone off ,…
• English - Noun: yell (plural yells) A shout . A phrase to be shouted. 1912, The Michigan Alumnus, volume 18, page 152: After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells , which transported us all in mind and feelings[…]
• English - Adjective: yell (not comparable) (Ulster, not comparable) dry (of cow)
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English ȝellen , yellen , from Old English ġiellan , from Proto-Germanic *gellaną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”). Etymology 2. Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).
• English - Pronunciation: IPA: /jɛl/ Rhymes: -ɛl