noun
- a loud, resonant sound; clang.
- clamorous noise.
verb (used without object)
- to make a clangor; clang.
noun
- a loud resonant often-repeated noise
- an uproar
verb
- (intr) to make or produce a loud resonant noise
1590s, from Latin clangor “sound of trumpets (Virgil), birds (Ovid), etc.,” from clangere “to clang,” echoic (cf. clang).