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# clangorous

«clangorous» in Mova's school dictionary: **Making a loud, ringing, clanging noise, like bells or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (clangorous; more clangorous, most clangorous — literary)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (literary) Making a loud, ringing, clanging noise, like bells or metal being struck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clangorous/#m1)

2) Full of harsh, repeated loud sounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clangorous/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A rare, poetic word for noise, used in stories to describe bells, metal gates, factories or a busy railway yard. It comes from «clangour», a loud continuous clanging. In everyday talk people say «clanging» or «noisy».

### examples

- The clangorous church bells woke the whole village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clangorous/#x1)
- We heard the clangorous noise of the blacksmith's hammer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clangorous/#x2)
- The iron gates shut with a clangorous crash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clangorous/#x3)
- The clangorous shipyard rang with hammers all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clangorous/#x4)
- Fire engines raced past with a clangorous alarm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clangorous/#x5)
- The poem describes the clangorous city streets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clangorous/#x6)

### note

Literary and rare. Spelling: «clangour» (UK) / «clangor» (US), but «clangorous» drops the «u» in both. Related: clang, clank, clatter.

### Trees and pragmatics

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