Billow

Quick meaning: Billow is a noun meaning A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.

Meaning

A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.

More Meanings

1. To surge or roll in billows.
2. To swell out or bulge.

Example Sentences

And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.

The snow fell hissing in the brine, / And the billows frothed like yeast.

The banners outflame the blazing morn, / O'er billows of bayonet, sword, and spear.

[…] Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll, / From the world's girdle to the frozen pole;

Word Forms

• billows
• billowing
• billowed

Synonyms for billow

Depending on context, synonyms include surge, heave, wallow, inflate, balloon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inflate, surge, wallow, heave, balloon, wave.

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