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1. bout
noun. ['ˈbaʊt'] (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive.
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Antonyms
Etymology
- bught (Middle English (1100-1500))
Rhymes with Bout
- stake-out
- without
- throughout
- strout
- sprout
- reroute
- redoubt
- devout
- troutt
- trout
- stoute
- stout
- spout
- snout
- shrout
- scout
- prout
- krout
- kraut
- grout
- flout
- drought
- crout
- clout
- all-out
- tout
- thuot
- shout
- routt
- route
How do you pronounce bout?
Pronounce bout as baʊt.
US - How to pronounce bout in American English
UK - How to pronounce bout in British English
Sentences with bout
1. Noun, singular or mass
Although it's commonly thought to be a bout of dry skin when an itch isn't present.
Quotes about bout
1. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
- George Orwell
2. I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
- Alice Walker, The Color Purple
3. All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
- George Orwell
2. bout
noun. ['ˈbaʊt'] an occasion for excessive eating or drinking.
Antonyms
Etymology
- bught (Middle English (1100-1500))
