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CLAMOR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud and persistent outcry from many people

Example:

he ignored the clamor of the crowd

Synonyms:

clamor; clamoring; clamour; clamouring; hue and cry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("clamor" is a kind of...):

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

Derivation:

clamor (utter or proclaim insistently and noisily)

clamorous (conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A loud harsh or strident noise

Synonyms:

blare; blaring; cacophony; clamor; din

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("clamor" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

clamorous (conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make loud demands

Example:

he clamored for justice and tolerance

Synonyms:

clamor; clamour

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "clamor" is one way to...):

demand (request urgently and forcefully)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

clamoring (loud and persistent outcry from many people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Utter or proclaim insistently and noisily

Example:

The delegates clamored their disappointment

Synonyms:

clamor; clamour

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "clamor" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

clamor; clamoring (loud and persistent outcry from many people)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring

Example:

They clamored the mayor into building a new park

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "clamor" is one way to...):

compel; obligate; oblige (force somebody to do something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Credits

 Context examples: 

Martin began, that morning, a story which he had sketched out a number of weeks before and which ever since had been worrying him with its insistent clamor to be created.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We were walking slowly towards these rocks, among bushes which reached over our waists, when we became aware of a strange low gabbling and whistling sound, which filled the air with a constant clamor and appeared to come from some spot immediately before us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whilst Chandos had been conversing with the two knights a continuous stream of suitors had been ushered in, adventurers seeking to sell their swords and merchants clamoring over some grievance, a ship detained for the carriage of troops, or a tun of sweet wine which had the bottom knocked out by a troop of thirsty archers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A score of men were on their feet clamoring for recognition from the chair.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He remembered that all these manuscripts had been refused by the very magazines that were now clamoring for them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was so much that was more important than Latin, so many studies that clamored with imperious voices.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was two months behind with his type-writer, and the agency was clamoring for payment or for the return of the machine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)