Thesaurus:animal sound

Thesaurus

animal sound

English

Noun

Sense: a noise made by an animal

Antonyms

• talk    [⇒ thesaurus]
• shout    [⇒ thesaurus]
• speech    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

General

• bell
• bellow
• call
• ululation    [⇒ thesaurus]
• reboation
• roar

Birds in general

• caw
• cawing
• cheep
• chirp
• coo
• coo-coo
• cuckoo
• gobble
• peep
• quack
• quacking
• screak
• screech
• shriek
• squawk
• tweet
• twitter

Cats

• meow
• mew
• miaow
• purr

Cattle

• moo
• boo

Chicken

• cackle
• cluck
• cock-a-doodle-doo

Deer

• troat

Dogs

• arf
• bark
• bow-wow
• growl
• latration
• snarl
• whimper
• whine
• woof
• woof-woof
• yap
• yelp
• yip

Donkeys

• bray
• hee-haw

Elephant

• trumpet

Frogs

• croak
• ribbit

Horses

• neigh
• nicker
• whicker
• whinny

Insects

• chirp
• chirr
• humming    [⇒ thesaurus]

Owl

• hoot
• tuwhit tuwhoo

Pigs

• grunt
• oink
• squeal

Rodents

• squeak
• wheek

Sheep

• baa
• baaing
• bleat
• bleating

Snakes

• sibilation    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• sound    [⇒ thesaurus]
• vocalization

Further reading

• “412. ululation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “animal sound” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.