CLAMOURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clamouring mean? 

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

1. loud and persistent outcry from many people

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAMOURING (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 ("clamouring" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

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

(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)

He left here, said Traddles, with his mother, who had been clamouring, and beseeching, and disclosing, the whole time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And romantic it certainly was—the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

During the last few minutes, Mrs. Heep had been clamouring to her son to be “umble”; and had been going down on her knees to all of us in succession, and making the wildest promises.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)