clamor

• clamour (UK English)

Recorded in English since c. 1385, from Old French clamor (modern clameur), from Latin clāmor (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”); the sense to silence may have a distinct (unknown) etymology.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈklæm.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈklæm.ɚ/

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• Homophone: clammer
• Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

clamor (countable and uncountable, plural clamors)

1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415, book I, page 17:

     For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]

2. Any loud and continued noise.
3. A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

• (great outcry): outcry, tumult

• clamorous
• clamorously
• clamorousness

clamor (third-person singular simple present clamors, present participle clamoring, simple past and past participle clamored)

1. (intransitive) To cry out and/or demand.

   Anyone who tastes our food seems to clamor for more.

2. (transitive) To demand by outcry.

   Thousands of demonstrators clamoring the government's resignation were literally deafening, yet their cries fell in deaf ears

   • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

     The distinctness of London has led many to clamor for the capital to pursue its own policies, especially on immigration. The British prime minister, David Cameron, is a Conservative. So is the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. But they have diametrically opposed views on immigration.

3. (intransitive) To become noisy insistently.

   After a confused murmur the audience soon clamored

4. (transitive) To influence by outcry.

   His many supporters successfully clamor his election without a formal vote

5. (obsolete, transitive) To silence.

• (to cry out): din

• Colmar, molrac

From Old Occitan clamor, from Latin clāmor, clāmōrem (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kləˈmo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /klaˈmoɾ/
• Rhymes: -o(ɾ)

clamor m or f (plural clamors)

1. clamor

• clam

From clāmō (“complain, cry out”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈklaː.mor/, [ˈkɫaː.mɔr]

clāmor m (genitive clāmōris); third declension

1. A shout, shouting.
2. An acclamation, applause.
3. A clamor, cry.
4. A noise, sound

Third declension.

• English: clamor, clamour
• French: clameur
• Italian: clamore
• Portuguese: clamor
• Spanish: clamor

• clamor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• clamor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clamor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• clamor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to elicit loud applause: clamores (coronae) facere, excitare
    
  • to raise a shout, a cry: clamorem tollere (Liv. 3. 28)
    

• clamour
• clamur

From Latin clāmor, clāmōrem.

clamor m (oblique plural clamors, nominative singular clamors, nominative plural clamor)

1. clamor (continued shouting and uproar)

• English: clamor, clamour
• French: clameur

Borrowed from Latin clāmor, clāmōrem.

clamor m (plural clamores)

1. din (loud noise)

• estrépido, algazarra

• clamar
• chamar

Borrowed from Latin clāmor, clāmōrem.

clamor m (plural clamores)

1. A clamor, shout.
2. A protest, outcry.
3. A loud noise.

• clamar
• llamar