Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Loud and clear.
- noun A medieval trumpet with a shrill clear tone.
- noun The sound of this instrument or a sound resembling it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small high-pitched trumpet.
- noun Hence, any sound resembling that of a clarion; any instrument which utters sounds like those of a clarion.
- noun An organ-stop having pipes with reeds, which give a bright, piercing tone, usually an octave above the key struck.
- noun In heraldry, a bearing common in very early English heraldry, and occasionally used on the continent, supposed to represent a musical wind-instrument.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A medieval
brass instrument , related to thetrumpet , or its sound. - adjective Loud and clear.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb blow the clarion
- verb proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion
- adjective loud and clear
- noun a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In this regard, we need to recall the clarion call made by Pixley ka Seme at the founding of the ANC 80 years ago when he said that "we must bury the demon of tribalism".
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In this regard, we need to recall the clarion call made by Pixley ka Seme at the founding of the ANC 80 years ago when he said that "we must bury the demon of tribalism".
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In this regard, we need to recall the clarion call made by Pixley ka Seme at the founding of the ANC 80 years ago when he said that
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[362-7] A clarion is a loud, clear-sounding trumpet.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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These are daunting obstacles but they also represent the kind of clarion call that brings out the best in the American spirit ... creativity and invention.
Anne Thompson: Tuning in to a Cleaner Energy Culture Anne Thompson 2010
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These are daunting obstacles but they also represent the kind of clarion call that brings out the best in the American spirit ... creativity and invention.
Anne Thompson: Tuning in to a Cleaner Energy Culture Anne Thompson 2010
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These are daunting obstacles but they also represent the kind of clarion call that brings out the best in the American spirit ... creativity and invention.
Anne Thompson: Tuning in to a Cleaner Energy Culture Anne Thompson 2010
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That kind of clarion call carries huge risks for their legitimacy as “leaders” but it also hurts the folks on their own side.
FireDogLake Napalms ObamaCare - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009
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We didn't have that kind of clarion message that Ronald Reagan had, a clear distinct and a positive agenda.
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And soon from street to street you hear the 'clarion' of the garrison, that singularly wild and sweet trumpet-call which sends
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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