clangour

/ ˈklæŋɡə; ˈklæŋə /

noun

1. a loud resonant often-repeated noise
2. an uproar

verb

1. intr to make or produce a loud resonant noise

Derived Forms

• ˈclangorous, adjective
• ˈclangorously, adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of clangour¹

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

Example Sentences

At night we saw their fires and by day we heard their noise, loud, ceaseless, clangour and din, chatter, sometimes a chanting to help them get a heavy beam into position, or hoist a load of tin sheeting to the roof.

From Literature

The driver alighted again, pulled a great bell which made a distant clangour, and then busied himself at the back of the cart with Harding's portmanteau, while the horse stood stretching its neck, and breathing audibly in the chilly stillness.

From Project Gutenberg

The end of the scaffolding outside Sir Robert Walpole's new house--the house next door--came within a few feet of the sill on which she leaned; the hoarse, beery voices of the workmen, and the clangour of the hammers, were destined to recall that day to her as long as she lived.

From Project Gutenberg

A new mob had a minute before burst from the eastward into the Rue St. Honor�; and the roar of its thousand voices swelled louder than the importunate clangour of the bells.

From Project Gutenberg

Noise-breeding trolley-cars, constricted streets that vibrate with the clangour of the loosely jointed machinery, an army of carts and the cries of vegetable venders, a multitude of jostling people making for the ferries on the Delaware or the bridges on the Schuylkill rivers, together with the hum of vast manufactories, all these and a thousand other things place New York in a more modest category; in reality our own city emits few pipes in comparison with the City of Brotherly Noise which sprawls over the map of Pennsylvania.

From Project Gutenberg