Clarion

Quick meaning: Clarion is a noun meaning The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.

Meaning

The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.

More Meanings

1. An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).
2. The middle register of the clarinet.
3. Of a sound, a voice, a message, etc.: brilliantly clear.
4. To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
5. Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
6. (music, historical or poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
7. (heraldry) A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.

Example Sentences

The clarion’s call to action has been heard.

And like a silver clarion rung / The accents of that unknown tongue, / Excelsior!

And his this Drum, vvhoſe hoarſe heroic baſe / Drovvns the loud Clarion of the braying Aſs.

The cock's ſhrill clarion, or the ecchoing horn, / No more ſhall rouſe them from their lovvly bed.

Word Forms

• clarions
• clarioning
• clarioned

Synonyms for clarion

Depending on context, synonyms include clarichord, rest, sufflue.

Related Words

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