clangor
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ər, ˈklæŋ verb (used without object)
3.
to make a clangor; clang.
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clangour or clangor (ˈklæŋɡə, ˈklæŋə, ˈklæŋɡə, ˈklæŋə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a loud resonant often-repeated noise |
| 2. | an uproar |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (intr) to make or produce a loud resonant noise |
| [C16: from Latin clangor a noise, from clangere to | |
| clangor or clangor | |
| —n | |
| —vb | |
| [C16: from Latin clangor a noise, from clangere to | |
| 'clangorous or clangor | |
| —adj | |
| 'clangorously or clangor | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
clangor
1590s, from L. clangor "sound of trumpets (Vergil), birds (Ovid), etc.," from clangere "to clang," echoic.
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Example sentences
Now was heard again the clangor of the music, and the measured tramp of the military escort, issuing from the church-door.
Each time, as soon as his parents lost track of him, he slipped away to the gaudy clangor of the penny arcade.
They plunge the clangor of billions of vermilion trumpets into the crowd outside, and echo in faint rose over the pavement.
The farmers called out to the panting beasts over the clangor of the huge cowbells around their necks.
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