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clangs

clangs is the plural of clang.

clangs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of clang.

Meaning of clang

Noun

clang (plural clangs)

  1. A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other; usually, one considered more jarring than melodious.
    • Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
      Came down upon her head
      Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer
      Made sure that she was dead1969, Paul McCartney, “Maxwell's Silver Hammer”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles
  2. Quality of tone.
  3. The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
  4. A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.
    • For much of this day, Mrs Y. wrote in her diary, covering page after page in a rapid scrawl full of paligraphic repetitions, puns, clangs, and violent, perseverative crossings-out […]1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

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Questions about clangs

What is clangs the plural of?
Clangs is the plural of clang.

Words near clangs in the dictionary

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

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