Definition of Rumblings

1. Noun. (plural of rumbling) ¹

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Definition of Rumblings

1. rumbling [n] - See also: rumbling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumblings

rumbas
rumbelow
rumbelows
rumble
rumble seat
rumble seats
rumbled
rumbler
rumblers
rumbles
rumbleth
rumblier
rumbliest
rumbling
rumblingly
rumblings
rumbly
rumbo
rumbooze
rumbos
rumbowline
rumbud
rumbuds
rumbullion
rumbullions
rumbunctious
rumbunctiousness
rumbustious
rumbustiously
rumbustiousness

Literary usage of Rumblings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thirty Years of New York Politics Up-to-date by Matthew Patrick Breen (1899)
"Rumblings PRECEDING THE ... of that year were the rumblings of discontent heard in any disquieting volume, although suspicion, nurtured by hints and rumors, ..."

2. Russia from the American Embassy, April, 1916-November, 1918 by David Rowland Francis (1922)
"CHAPTER IV Rumblings OF REVOLUTION ON December 23rd, 1916, I delivered to Foreign Minister Pokrovski President Wilson's communication to each of the ..."

3. History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Frances Fuller Victor (1890)
"... Rumblings—CLIMATE— ANIMATED NATURE. IMAGINE an undulating plain extending from the mouth of the Platte river westward over five hundred miles, ..."

4. The Coming Climax in the Destinies of America by Lester Coe Hubbard (1891)
"CHAPTER VII PREMONITORY Rumblings "The actual state of Society, it is useless to deny it, is a state of war, of active irreconcilable war on every side and ..."

5. A Private Chapter of the War by George W. Bailey (1880)
"Listen ! the distant thunder of heavy guns — midnight's slumbers broken by dreaded rumblings of war; but the cannon's echo, that awakens, ..."

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