clangor
AmericanUsage
See -our.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of clangor
1585–95; < Latin: loud sound, noise, equivalent to clang ( ere ) to clang + -or -or 1
Explanation
Clangor is one of those words that means exactly what it sounds like, so you can feel free to describe the noise your brother makes when he's banging on his drums in the basement as a clangor. The word clangor brings to mind clanking sounds, but it can also be used to mean any kind of resounding, deafening noise, such as the shouting of a crowd. When you instinctively know what a word means just by the way it sounds — like clangor — that's called onomatopoeia.
Vocabulary lists containing clangor
A Long Walk to Water
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Example Sentences
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After all, the prevailing idea of economic progress — as measured by gross domestic product — depends on expanding the clangor of industrial production, Big Data and the attention economy.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2022
On this splendidly dyspeptic song, Mr. Callinan, an Australian musician with a penchant for creative provocation, splits the difference between industrial clangor and disco slither.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2017
Someone has taken care, here and there, to create smart moments amid the clangor, but Jeff Koons always wins.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2015
Likewise, the almost medieval purity of Mary Ellen Childs’s “Black Box,” performed by Quartet New Generation, a German recorder consort, served as airy refreshment after the density, clangor and volume of Mr. Ziporyn’s offering.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2010
Behind him, the yard rang to the clangor of steel on steel.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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