clangor

[klang-er, klang-ger]

noun

verb (used without object)

Also especially British, clang·our.

Origin of clangor

1585–95; < Latin: loud sound, noise, equivalent to clang(ere) to clang + -or -or¹

Related formsclang·or·ous, adjectiveclang·or·ous·ly, adverb

See -our.

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“I used to say that fear is probably the most important concept of feeling,” he said amid the clangor of forks and knives.
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R.M. Schneiderman
March 21, 2012

There were five or six others, whose names in the clangor of voices I did not hear.
Lords of the North
A. C. Laut
The clangor, the smoke and dust, the hurrying crowds, all worked into his mood.
The Girl and The Bill
Bannister Merwin
There was the sound of horsery and the clangor and click of camera men without.
The Shriek
Charles Somerville
The clangor distracted the attention of the assailants, and a parley ensued.
Stanley in Africa
James P. Boyd
The clangor waxed, beat about us with tremendous strokes of sound.
The Metal Monster
A. Merritt

Word Origin and History for clangor

1590s, from Latin clangor "sound of trumpets (Virgil), birds (Ovid), etc.," from clangere "to clang," echoic (cf. clang).