English

Alternative forms

• clamor (US spelling)

Noun

clamour ‎(plural clamours)

1. Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
   • Chaucer (Wife of Bath's Tale)

     Ffor which oppression was swich clamour

   • Shakespeare (Love's Labours Lost)

     Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.

   • Addison

     Here the loud Arno's boist'rous clamours cease.

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Verb

clamour ‎(third-person singular simple present clamours, present participle clamouring, simple past and past participle clamoured)

1. Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
2. (transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
   • Milton

     The people with a shout / Rifted the air, clamouring their god with praise.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
   • Bacon

     Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.

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Derived terms

• clamourous
• clamourously

Middle English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman clamour, from an earlier clamur, from Latin clamor

Noun

clamour (plural clamours)

1. shout; cry; clamor

Synonyms

• crie, crye

Old French

Noun

clamour f ‎(oblique plural clamours, nominative singular clamour, nominative plural clamours)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of clamur

   querele oie ne pleinte ne clamour