soar

CEFRC1

/sɔː/

verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To fly or rise very high in the air.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.

Examples

  • My flag will soar in the sky.

  • William watched the plane soar in the sky.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /soɹ/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.

  2. To fly high with little effort, like a bird.

  3. To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.

More examples

In context

  • The birds soar in the air.

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

  • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor this apparent soar of the hooded falcon

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The hawk spread its large wings and began to blank high above the forest.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English soren, from Old French essorer (“to fly up, soar”), from Vulgar Latin *exaurare (“to rise into the air”), from Latin ex (“out”) + aura (“the air, a breeze”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breath”). Compare aura, and exhale.