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Definition of Clangour

1. Noun. A loud resonant repeating noise. "He could hear the clang of distant bells"

2. Verb. Make a loud resonant noise. "The alarm clangored throughout the building"

Definition of Clangour

1. Noun. (Commonwealth) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din. ¹

2. Verb. (Commonwealth) To make a clanging sound. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clangour

1. to clangor [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: clangor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clangour

clanger clangers clangier clangiest clangily clanging clangingly clangings clangor clangored

clangoring clangorous clangorously clangorousness clangors clangour (current term) clangoured clangouring clangourous clangours

clangous clangs clangy clanjamfrie clanjamfries clank clanked clanker clankers clankier

Literary usage of Clangour

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chronicles of the City of Perugia, 1492-1503 by Francesco Maturanzio, Edward Strachan Morgan (1905)
"... the deafening rattle of musketry, the clash and clangour of drums and trumpets that you might have thought that Mars himself and all his dogs of war had ..."

2. Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer by John Aikin (1843)
"... Then the mountain echoes rang With the clangour of alarms : Shrill the signal trumpet sang ; All our warriors leapt to arms. ..."

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