clangor

[ klang-er, klang-ger ]

/ ˈklæŋ ər, ˈklæŋ gər /

a loud, resonant sound; clang.

clamorous noise.

to make a clangor; clang.

RELATED WORDS

Also especially British, clang·our.

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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He had a habit of smiting the keyboard, and massive chords, clangorous harmonies inevitably preluded his performances.
Melomaniacs|James Huneker
Then we pray to the holy deity, Pallas of the clangorous arms, the first to welcome our cheers.
The Aeneid of Virgil|Virgil
And with the clangorous metal pail he smote the ugly, brutish skull.
Darkness and Dawn|George Allan England
"That's not a con-tin-gen-cy," said Barbara, and for more than a minute they listened to the clangorous racket of the rails.
John March, Southerner|George W. Cable

Her lips parted; from them came another trumpeting—tyrannic, arrogant and clangorous.
The Metal Monster|A. Merritt

adj.

1712, from Medieval Latin clangorosus, from Latin clangor, or else from clangor + -ous. Related: Clangorously; clangorousness.

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