clangor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a loud, resonant noise or confused series of metallic sounds

   The clangor of bells and iron gates filled the station.

2. 2
   verb

   to make a loud, resonant clanging sound

   Loose sheets of metal clangored in the wind.

Borrowed in the late sixteenth century from Latin clangor, 'a resounding noise,' from clangere, 'to resound or clang.' Clangour is the chiefly British spelling; the verb was formed later from the noun.

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