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6-letter words (1 found)

CLAMOR,

5-letter words (11 found)

CAROL,CAROM,CLARO,CLOAM,COMAL,CORAL,CORAM,MACRO,MOLAR,MORAL,ROMAL,

4-letter words (24 found)

ACRO,ALCO,ARCO,CALM,CALO,CAMO,CARL,CLAM,COAL,COLA,COMA,CORM,CRAM,LOAM,LOCA,LOMA,MARC,MARL,MOLA,MORA,ORAL,ORCA,ROAM,ROMA,

3-letter words (27 found)

ARC,ARM,CAL,CAM,CAR,COL,COR,LAC,LAM,LAR,LOR,MAC,MAL,MAR,MOA,MOC,MOL,MOR,OAR,OCA,OLM,OMA,ORA,ORC,RAM,ROC,ROM,

2-letter words (9 found)

AL,AM,AR,LA,LO,MA,MO,OM,OR,

You can make 72 words from clamor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of clamor

clamor

Alternative forms

  • clamour (UK English)

Etymology

Recorded in English since c. 1385, as Middle English clamour, from Old French clamor (modern clameur), from Latin clāmor (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”); the sense to silence may have a distinct (unknown) etymology.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈklæm.ə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈklæm.ɚ/
  • Homophone: clammer
  • Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

Noun

clamor (countable and uncountable, plural clamors) (American spelling)

  1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
  2. Any loud and continued noise.
  3. A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

Synonyms

  • (great outcry): outcry, tumult

Derived terms

  • clamorous
  • clamorously
  • clamorousness

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Translations

Verb

clamor (third-person singular simple present clamors, present participle clamoring, simple past and past participle clamored) (American spelling)

  1. (intransitive) To cry out and/or demand.
    Anyone who tastes our food seems to clamor for more.
  2. (transitive) To demand by outcry.
    Thousands of demonstrators clamoring the government's resignation were literally deafening, yet their cries fell in deaf ears
  3. (intransitive) To become noisy insistently.
    After a confused murmur the audience soon clamored
  4. (transitive) To influence by outcry.
    His many supporters successfully clamor his election without a formal vote
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To silence.

Synonyms

  • (to cry out): din

Translations

Anagrams

  • Colmar, molrac

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin clāmōrem (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [kləˈmo]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [klaˈmoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -o(ɾ)

Noun

clamor m or f (plural clamors)

  1. clamor
    Synonym: clam

References

  • “clamor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Alternative forms

  • clāmōs (Old Latin form, found in Ennius and Lucretius)

Etymology

From Old Latin clāmōs, from clāmō (“complain, cry out”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈklaː.mor/, [ˈkɫ̪äːmɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkla.mor/, [ˈkläːmor]

Noun

clāmor m (genitive clāmōris); third declension

  1. a shout, shouting
  2. an acclamation, applause
  3. a clamor, cry, outcry, protest
  4. a noise, sound
    Synonyms: clangor, strepitus, fragor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

  • French: clameur
    • → English: clamor, clamour
  • → Italian: clamore
  • → Portuguese: clamor
  • → Spanish: clamor

References

  • “clamor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “clamor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • clamor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • clamor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old French

Alternative forms

  • clamour
  • clamur

Etymology

From Latin clāmor, clāmōrem.

Noun

clamor oblique singular, m (oblique plural clamors, nominative singular clamors, nominative plural clamor)

  1. clamor (continued shouting and uproar)

Descendants

  • English: clamor, clamour
  • French: clameur

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clāmōrem.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: cla‧mor

Noun

clamor m (plural clamores)

  1. din (loud noise)
    Synonyms: estrépido, algazarra

Related terms

  • clamar
  • clamoroso
  • chamar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clāmōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klaˈmoɾ/ [klaˈmoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: cla‧mor

Noun

clamor m (plural clamores)

  1. a clamor, shout
  2. a protest, outcry
  3. a loud noise

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “clamor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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