Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a loud, resonant sound; clang.
- clamorous noise.
verb (used without object)
- to make a clangor; clang.
1712, from Medieval Latin clangorosus, from Latin clangor, or else from clangor + -ous. Related: Clangorously; clangorousness.
1590s, from Latin clangor “sound of trumpets (Virgil), birds (Ovid), etc.,” from clangere “to clang,” echoic (cf. clang).