MEANING
1. Loud insistent calling or a confused mass of noise.
2. To call or demand insistently.
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Words that belong together
- a clamor of voices
- rising clamor
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A clamor of voices rose beyond the partition.
The clamor drowned the reply before she heard its ending.
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Word forms
- Base
- clamor
- Past tense
- clamored or clamoured
- Past participle
- clamored or clamoured
- Present participle
- clamoring or clamouring
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Singular clamor; plural clamors. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: clamors.
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