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clangor

[ klang-er, klang-ger ]

noun

  1. a loud, resonant sound; clang.
  2. clamorous noise.


verb (used without object)

  1. to make a clangor; clang.

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Usage Note

See -our.

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Other Words From

  • clangor·ous adjective
  • clangor·ous·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of clangor1

1585–95; < Latin: loud sound, noise, equivalent to clang ( ere ) to clang + -or -or 1

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Example Sentences

“I used to say that fear is probably the most important concept of feeling,” he said amid the clangor of forks and knives.

A church clock struck the hour of seven, its clangor intruding upon the silence only as a muffled boom.

On the Surrey shore whistles shrieked, and endless moving chains sent up their monstrous clangor into the night.

The second door was opened, and the clangor of the Surrey shore suddenly proclaimed itself.

A mighty horn was blaring; a great bell was tossing up its brazen throat in ringing clangor.

The deafening clangor soon dominated and completely drowned the isolated tinkling of the communal bell.

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