CLAMOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clamour mean? 

• CLAMOUR (noun)
  The noun CLAMOUR has 1 sense:

1. loud and persistent outcry from many people

  Familiarity information: CLAMOUR used as a noun is very rare.

• CLAMOUR (verb)
  The verb CLAMOUR has 2 senses:

1. utter or proclaim insistently and noisily

2. make loud demands

  Familiarity information: CLAMOUR used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAMOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud and persistent outcry from many people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

clamor; clamoring; clamour; clamouring; hue and cry

Context example:

he ignored the clamor of the crowd

Hypernyms ("clamour" is a kind of...):

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

Derivation:

clamour (make loud demands)

clamour (utter or proclaim insistently and noisily)

• CLAMOUR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they clamour    ... he / she / it clamours   
Past simple: clamoured   
Past participle: clamoured   
-ing form: clamouring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Utter or proclaim insistently and noisily

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

clamor; clamour

Context example:

The delegates clamored their disappointment

Hypernyms (to "clamour" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

clamour (loud and persistent outcry from many people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make loud demands

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

clamor; clamour

Context example:

he clamored for justice and tolerance

Hypernyms (to "clamour" is one way to...):

demand (request urgently and forcefully)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

clamour (loud and persistent outcry from many people)

 Context examples 

Judge Scott's suggestion of a trained nurse was indignantly clamoured down by the girls, who themselves undertook the task.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But had she seen the clamour in them and understood?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The excited voice went clamouring along the staircase; and I wrapped myself in my clothes as quickly as I could, and ran into the street.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upward, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamour.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Charles and Mary also came in, of course, during their visit, and Mr Musgrove made a point of paying his respects to Lady Russell, and sat down close to her for ten minutes, talking with a very raised voice, but from the clamour of the children on his knees, generally in vain.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Others, in the water, were clamouring to be taken aboard again.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It manifested itself to him as a void in his being—a hungry, aching, yearning void that clamoured to be filled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)