clangor
noun
also -gər\
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Synonyms & Antonyms for clangor
Synonyms: Noun
babel, blare, bluster, bowwow, brawl, bruit [archaic], cacophony, chatter, clamor, decibel(s), din, discordance, katzenjammer, noise, racket, rattle, roar
Antonyms: Noun
quiet, silence, silentness, still, stillness
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Examples of clangor in a Sentence
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the clangor of pots and pans coming from the kitchen as the cooks threw together an impromptu meal the clangor of a battle in the Middle Ages, as steel hit against steel a thousand timesRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
The trio blasted through the scherzo, a quintessential Ivesian clangor that mashes together a whole sheaf of folk tunes and hymns. — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, "JCT Trio stuns in Rockport with superb Ives and Dvorák," 3 July 2019 Smith got to walk heroically through the throng gathered at Independence Hall, ring the Bell to trigger the great national clangor, and be interviewed for the many stories the government’s war propaganda office set up. — Stephen Fried, Smithsonian, "How the Liberty Bell Won the Great War," 29 Apr. 2017 Smith got to walk heroically through the throng gathered at Independence Hall, ring the Bell to trigger the great national clangor, and be interviewed for the many stories the government’s war propaganda office set up. — Stephen Fried, Smithsonian, "How the Liberty Bell Won the Great War," 29 Apr. 2017 Smith got to walk heroically through the throng gathered at Independence Hall, ring the Bell to trigger the great national clangor, and be interviewed for the many stories the government’s war propaganda office set up. — Stephen Fried, Smithsonian, "How the Liberty Bell Won the Great War," 29 Apr. 2017 Smith got to walk heroically through the throng gathered at Independence Hall, ring the Bell to trigger the great national clangor, and be interviewed for the many stories the government’s war propaganda office set up. — Stephen Fried, Smithsonian, "How the Liberty Bell Won the Great War," 29 Apr. 2017 Smith got to walk heroically through the throng gathered at Independence Hall, ring the Bell to trigger the great national clangor, and be interviewed for the many stories the government’s war propaganda office set up. — Stephen Fried, Smithsonian, "How the Liberty Bell Won the Great War," 29 Apr. 2017 Smith got to walk heroically through the throng gathered at Independence Hall, ring the Bell to trigger the great national clangor, and be interviewed for the many stories the government’s war propaganda office set up. — Stephen Fried, Smithsonian, "How the Liberty Bell Won the Great War," 2 May 2017 The melodious clangor of the cimbalom (hammered dulcimer) spiced more than half of the pieces, punctuating the rhapsodic Roma fiddle playing of Sporcl and Yuan-Qing Yu, the splendid Civitas violinist. — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, "Chicago and Czech ensembles infuse Gypsy music with color, vivacity," 22 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'clangor.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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