Word Meanings - MURMURATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton.

Related words: (words related to MURMURATION)

• MURMUR
  1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
• MURMUROUS
  Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
• MURMURATION
  The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton.
• MURMURER
  One who murmurs.
• MURMURING
  Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining. -- Mur"mur*ing*ly, adv.
• REMURMUR
  To murmur again; to utter back, or reply, in murmurs. The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the silver flood. Pope.