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Definition of call : 1. A divine vocation or summons.
2. A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
3. A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
4. A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
5. A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
6. A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.
7. A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
8. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
9. See Assessment, 4.
10. The act of calling; - usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.
11. The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
12. The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
13. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
14. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
15. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; - often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
16. To invoke; to appeal to.
17. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.
18. To make a demand, requirement, or request.
19. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
20. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
21. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
22. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; - sometimes with to.
23. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
24. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
25. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; - often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.
26. Vocation; employment.

Synonyms:

rallying cry, telephone, peal, foresee, collect, withdraw, border, invitation, taps, gripe, bidding, bitch, beseech, crab, cluster, call option, retrieve, vociferate, forestall, strain, look for, confabulate, vociferation, shout out, scrub, chew out, resound, refer, deal, foreknow, assemble, halloo, let someone have it, alerted, war cry, remember, vocal, diagnose, ring, chat, chit-chat, recollect, counter, tender, phone, press, birdsong, rally, travel to, expect, specific, bode, invite, convene, chitchat, chastise, seek, style, look up, presage, call off, recall, chew the fat, accost, describe, clapperclaw, phone call, prepared, skirt, previse, annunciate, auspicate, conjure, stop, echo, anticipate, forebode, hollo, forecast, reprimand, buzz, bawl out, call up, baptize, drop in, gossip, natter, list, predict, watchword, adjure, chaffer, assure, bid, look in, key, come up to, claver, surround, confab, bring up, rap, lambaste, holler out, cover, proposal, turn to, note, visiting, think, abuse, congregate, waul, cry out, plow, bring down, denominate, admonish, standing by, beef, reproach, foretell, bluster, convoke, harbinger, impose, scratch, direct, knell, hail, bellyache, blazon out, band, rebuke, reverberate, drop by, project, mobilize, trumpet call, wish, weep, blackguard, birdcall, outcry, words, promise, send for, portend, round up, pop in, entreat, visit, scold, cite, summon, address, come by, yawp, key out, get together, ejaculate, attack, inspect, call in, jaw, look to, mention, gather, appeal, grouse, characterize, nominate, available, make, offer, summons, appoint, cancel, margin call, dress down, constitute, muster, request, reprove, praise, treat, speak, command, claim, bring forward, wawl, augur, inflict, entitle, environ, upbraid, mobilise, group, squall, see, prefigure, reveille, handle, call out, foresight, distinguish, advert, dub, dial, call back, discover, call on the carpet, prognosticate, betoken, announce, battle cry, omen, telephone call, chide, foreshadow, come over, tax, run in, song, herald, castigate, shoot the breeze

holler, whoop, cheer, moan, scream, exclaim, yell, groan, sob, shout, shriek, clamor

bell, alert, foghorn, caution, notice, horn, warning, semaphore, beacon, buoy, signal, whistle, alarm, flare, siren

tag, label, term, title, identify, name, designate, christen

cry, chirp, cackle, snort, chatter, grunt, bleat, growl, moo, purr, mew, squawk, cuckoo, whinny, gobble, honk, bellow, bay, cluck, roar, snarl, coo, neigh, warble, hoot, yelp, squeal, trill, twit, caw, howl, ululate, quack, meow, bawl, bray, crow, bark

ululation

Usage examples:

• Poor kalsomining, we call it. - "The So-called Human Race", Bert Leston Taylor.
• " Do you expect me to call this place home? - "Victor Ollnee's Discipline", Hamlin Garland.
• " If you like to call it so. - "Blind Policy", George Manville Fenn.