clangour en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈklæŋ(ɡ)ɚ/ (Canada, US)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈklæŋ(ɡ)ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin clangō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin clangorbor. English clangour Borrowed from Latin clangor.
Meanings
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(Canada, UK, countable, uncountable) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
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.
1957 May 14, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:1920, 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.
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; […]
[1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 80:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| clangours | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| clangor | Canada, US, alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (10)
nl galmen (a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din) · fi kalina (a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din) · de Schall (a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din) · fi kolina (a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din) · ru бряца́ние (a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din) · it clangore (a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din) · ru лязг (a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din) · nl geschal (a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din) · es estruendo (a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din) · de Getöse (a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din)