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clangours

clangours is the plural of clangour.

clangours is the third-person singular simple present indicative of clangour.

Meaning of clangour

Noun

clangour (countable and uncountable, plural clangours)

  1. (Canada, UK) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
    • 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; […][1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new...

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Questions about clangours

What is clangours the plural of?
Clangours is the plural of clangour.

Words near clangours in the dictionary

  1. clangors
  2. clangour
  3. clangoured
  4. clangouring
  5. clangourous
  6. clangours
  7. clangous
  8. clangs
  9. clangy
  10. clanism
  11. clanistic

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