clangour
/ˈklæŋ(ɡ)ɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin clangō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin clangorbor. English clangour Borrowed from Latin clangor.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈklæŋ(ɡ)ɚ/
- British English: /ˈklæŋ(ɡ)ə/
Usage
- Canadian usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable