Clangour

Quick meaning: Clangour is a noun meaning (British, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.

Meaning

(British, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.

More Meanings

1. (British, Canada) To make a clanging sound.

Example Sentences

It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb.

H. G. Wells' stark short story "The Cone" tells of a man's macabre revenge worked out in the clangour of a great steel works and railway lines and sidings.

When every least commander’s will, best soldiers had obey’d, / And both the hosts were rang’d for fight, the Trojans would have fray’d / The Greeks with noises; crying out, in coming rudely on / At all parts, like the cranes that fill with harsh confusion / Of brutish clangour all the air; […]

1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love, And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.

Word Forms

• clangours
• clangor
• clangouring
• clangoured

Synonyms for clangour

Depending on context, synonyms include clash, crash, clang, jangle, clank, clangor.

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