clangour

British  

/ ˈklæŋɡə, ˈklæŋə /

noun

1. a loud resonant often-repeated noise

2. an uproar

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verb

1. (intr) to make or produce a loud resonant noise

Other Word Forms

• clangorous adjective
• clangorously adverb

Etymology

Origin of clangour

C16: from Latin clangor a noise, from clangere to _clang

Example Sentences

It comes as a welcome relief to find someone brave enough to suggest that with all its clamor and clangour there is possibly a word to be said for New York City.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alongside, the frogs were making the deafening clangour of an iron foundry, and through that sound shrilled the cicadas.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

In the midst of my perturbation it made every fibre of my frame tremble by striking one with a solemn clangour that I thought must have waked every sleeper in the house.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard

I cried, and the shout must have gone to our leader's ear, though I myself could not hear it, so great was the clangour and the din.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

And in a moment more the whole church was filled with the clangour of armed men.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)