English

Alternative forms

• clangor (US, Canadian)

Noun

clangour ‎(plural clangours)

1. (Britain, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• clangorous
• clangorously

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Verb

clangour ‎(third-person singular simple present clangours, present participle clangouring, simple past and past participle clangoured)

1. (Britain, Canada) To make a clanging sound.
   • 1924, Jim Tully, Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography, page 67:

     It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb.

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