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# clamour

«clamour» in Mova's school dictionary: **a loud noise made by many voices shouting together** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (clamours); verb (clamours, clamoured, clamouring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A clamour is a loud noise made by many voices shouting together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamour/#m1)

2) To clamour is to shout or demand something loudly: clamour for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamour/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a crowd or a dragon fight makes a loud noise, or hungry people demand food

### examples

- The clamour of the crowd woke the whole town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamour/#x1)
- The children clamoured for ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamour/#x2)
- The prince ignored the clamour of the hounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamour/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clamour» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamour/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.