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clamour noun [ ˈklamə ]

• a loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting.
• "the questions rose to a clamour"
Similar: din, racket, loud noise, uproar, tumult, babel, shouting, yelling, screaming, baying, roaring, blaring, clangour, commotion, brouhaha, hue and cry, hubbub, bedlam, pandemonium, stramash, hullabaloo, rumpus, row, vociferation, ululation, charivari,
Opposite: silence,

clamour verb

• (of a group of people) shout loudly and insistently.
• "the surging crowds clamoured for attention"
Similar: yell, shout loudly, bay, scream, shriek, roar,
Origin: late Middle English: via Old French from Latin clamor, from clamare ‘cry out’.


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