clamour

Alternative forms

• clamor (US spelling)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈklæm.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈklæm.ɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æmə(r)

Noun

clamour (countable and uncountable, 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.

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate next Gray's Inn Lane, OCLC 228732415, book I, page 17:

     For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]

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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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Etymology

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

Noun

clamour (plural clamours)

1. shout; cry; clamor

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