soar

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   go or move upward

   The stock market soared after the cease-fire was announced

2. 2
   verb

   rise rapidly

   the dollar soared against the yen

3. 3
   verb

   To fly high with little effort, like a bird.

   When soars Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurl'd,

4. 4
   verb

   To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.

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

5. 5
   verb

   To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.

   Such where the deep tranſported mind may ſoare / Above the wheeling poles,

6. 6
   noun

   The act of soaring.

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

7. 7
   noun

   the act of rising upward into the air

8. 8
   verb

   fly a plane without an engine

Etymology

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.