Word Direct Answers

What does "clamor" mean?

Clamor: Any loud and continued noise. Addison.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. Macaulay.
  2. 3.To salute loudly. [R.] The people with a shout Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise. Milton .
  3. 4.To stun with noise. [R.] Bacon.
  4. 5.To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout. Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. Bp. Warbur
  5. 6.To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak.

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