Meaning of clangour | Babel Free

Definitions

A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.

British, Canada, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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; […]”

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level