Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • etc. See clamor, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun same as clamor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of clamor.
  • verb Alternative spelling of clamor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
  • noun loud and persistent outcry from many people
  • verb make loud demands

Etymologies

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From Latin clāmor ("a shout, cry"), from clāmō ("cry out, complain")

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Examples

  • Richard rocking with the radium – urgent passion of the night: the huge, desirous swing, the call clamour, the low hiss of retreat.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • In spite of an agreement that would have permitted nine minor professionals to play for Canada in 1970, this body changed its decision to satisfy the clamour from the Russians.

    Sport is Big Business and Hockey is a Sport 1970

  • Flying waterfalls and rolling torrents outdo one another in clamour and confusion;

    Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

  • But there was no clamour from the five groups that discussed in earnest undertones the question of "to be or not to be."

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • The impotent malice of those that can but censure, and revile, and clamour, is sometimes more formidable even to wise and good men than one would think.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • Gharib’s horsemen fell on those of Jamrkan and slew fifty of them: the rest fled; nor did they cease flying till they reached their tribal camp and raised their voices in clamour; whereupon all who were in the Castle came out to meet them and asked the news.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In public deliberations, therefore, his voice is little heard and less regarded, except upon some particular occasions when his clamour is animated, set on, and supported by his employers, not for his, but their own particular purposes.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

  • In public deliberations, therefore, his voice is little heard and less regarded, except upon some particular occasions when his clamour is animated, set on, and supported by his employers, not for his, but their own particular purposes.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

  • I recall the clamour and the clapping that came from the science community when a commonality 'bus' was proposed with man-tending for all LEO science missions and the Tug was designed to facilitate access for robotic tending in higher orbits, lifted and deployed from LEO by Shuttle and returned to earth for reuse.

    Candid Comments on the Constellation Program - NASA Watch 2009

  • The only sound I heard in all the clamour was the tread of our feet on the cobbles, and the breathing of Richard Byron beside me.

    Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967

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