"clangorous" meaning in English

See clangorous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more clangorous [comparative], most clangorous [superlative]
Etymology: clangor + -ous Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|clangor|ous}} clangor + -ous Head templates: {{en-adj}} clangorous (comparative more clangorous, superlative most clangorous)
  1. Making a clangor. Synonyms: clangourous
    Sense id: en-clangorous-en-adj-BimpJhOw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ous

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for clangorous meaning in English (2.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "clangor",
        "3": "ous"
      },
      "expansion": "clangor + -ous",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "clangor + -ous",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more clangorous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most clangorous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clangorous (comparative more clangorous, superlative most clangorous)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ous",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1712 March 24, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, volume V, number 334",
          "text": "Who would have thought that the clangorous Noise of a Smith’s Hammers should have given the first rise to Musick?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher",
          "text": "No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than—as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet apparently muffled, reverberation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter Twelve",
          "text": "The air was full of sound, a deafening and confusing conflict of noises—the clangorous din of the Martians, the crash of falling houses, the thud of trees, fences, sheds flashing into flame, and the crackling and roaring of fire.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Michael Tenzer, chapter 1, in Balinese Music, Berkeley: Periplus Editions, page 11",
          "text": "Music lovers have long discerned a splendid aural feast in the sounds of the gamelan. Emanating perpetually from communities all over the island of Bali, its sonorities sail over the ricefields on clear nights, showering the air with brilliant cascades of metallic sound, lonely whispering melodies, grandiose and clangorous marches, virtuosic rhythms, and breathtaking crescendos.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Making a clangor."
      ],
      "id": "en-clangorous-en-adj-BimpJhOw",
      "links": [
        [
          "clangor",
          "clangor"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "clangourous"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "clangorous"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "clangor",
        "3": "ous"
      },
      "expansion": "clangor + -ous",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "clangor + -ous",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more clangorous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most clangorous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clangorous (comparative more clangorous, superlative most clangorous)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ous",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1712 March 24, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, volume V, number 334",
          "text": "Who would have thought that the clangorous Noise of a Smith’s Hammers should have given the first rise to Musick?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher",
          "text": "No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than—as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet apparently muffled, reverberation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter Twelve",
          "text": "The air was full of sound, a deafening and confusing conflict of noises—the clangorous din of the Martians, the crash of falling houses, the thud of trees, fences, sheds flashing into flame, and the crackling and roaring of fire.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Michael Tenzer, chapter 1, in Balinese Music, Berkeley: Periplus Editions, page 11",
          "text": "Music lovers have long discerned a splendid aural feast in the sounds of the gamelan. Emanating perpetually from communities all over the island of Bali, its sonorities sail over the ricefields on clear nights, showering the air with brilliant cascades of metallic sound, lonely whispering melodies, grandiose and clangorous marches, virtuosic rhythms, and breathtaking crescendos.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Making a clangor."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clangor",
          "clangor"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "clangourous"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clangorous"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.