Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense clamours, present participle clamouring, past tense, past participle clamouredregional note: in AM, use clamor
1. verb
If people are clamouringfor something, they are demanding it in a noisy or angry way.
[journalism]
...competing parties clamouring for the attention of the voter. [VERB + for]
At breakfast next morning my two grandsons were clamouring to go swimming. [VERB to-infinitive]
Synonyms: yell, shout, scream, howl More Synonyms of clamour
Clamour is also a noun.
...the clamour for his resignation. [+ for]
2. singular noun
Clamour is used to describe the loud noise of a large group of people talking or shouting together.
Kathryn's quiet voice stilled the clamour.
She could hear a clamour in the road outside.
Synonyms: noise, shouting, racket, outcry More Synonyms of clamour
clamour in British English
or US clamor (ˈklæmə)
noun
1.
a loud persistent outcry, as from a large number of people
2.
a vehement expression of collective feeling or outrage
a clamour against higher prices
3.
a loud and persistent noise
the clamour of traffic
verb
4. (intr; often foll by for or against)
to make a loud noise or outcry; make a public demand
they clamoured for attention
5. (transitive)
to move, influence, or force by outcry
the people clamoured the leaders out of office
Derived forms
clamourer (ˈclamourer) or US clamorer (ˈclamorer)
noun
clamorous (ˈclamorous)
adjective
clamorously (ˈclamorously)
adverb
clamorousness (ˈclamorousness)
noun
Word origin
C14: from Old French clamour, from Latin clāmor, from clāmāre to cry out
Examples of 'clamour' in a sentence
clamour
Its economy is beginning to flounder and its billion people clamour for more and more human rights.
The Sun (2012)
It cannot make itself heard above the general clamour for attention.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But those who say the whole country is clamouring for a referendum are wrong.
The Sun (2014)
So it was not surprising to hear a clamour of protests from the business lobby.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There were no clamouring voices demanding the music be changed.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The noise, the clamour and the characters made it an incredible place to work.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
And can he do it, when the people clamour only for a strong tsar?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
She feels flattered by the clamour of attention, if a little bewildered.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The increasing clamour for the referendum to be re-run makes no sense.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
On Thursday we wake and hear the welcome clamour all around.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Different stars for different codes, all better enjoyed without clamour to make them something they are not.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The alternatives are not well understood or well promoted, though people are clearly clamouring to know more.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I quickly find noise and clamour and small talk overpowering.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
And you can't send an armed soldier to solve a situation in which people are clamouring for food.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Dream'Five years ago people were clamouring to buy property in the area but now the business has dried up.
The Sun (2008)
Nor does there seem a host of players outside the XI clamouring for attention.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There is too much to take in from just being on the internet, let alone when dozens of ads are clamouring for our attention.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In Britain, the clamour for a referendum will continue to grow.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It's not often that you clamour to hear about an actor's childhood.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
As a result, he will retain his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation and resist the clamour to make wholesale changes.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The clamour to make him England boss will be so great, it will take cloth ears to ignore it.
The Sun (2011)
Without that, there is no such thing as society, merely the clamour of competing voices and the clash of conflicting wills.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
All around them in the Arab world young people were clamouring for change and so tens of thousands eagerly signed up for an anti-government protest.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In other languages
clamour
British English: clamour VERB
If people are clamouring for something, they are demanding it in a noisy or angry way.
...competing parties clamouring for the attention of the voter.
American English: clamor
Brazilian Portuguese: clamar
Chinese: 叫嚣
European Spanish: clamar
French: tout faire pour obtenirN
German: schreien nach
Italian: reclamare a gran voce
Japanese: 声高に要求する
Korean: 시끄럽게 요구하다
European Portuguese: clamar
Latin American Spanish: clamar
(verb)
Definition
to make a loud noise or outcry
My two grandsons were clamouring to go swimming.
Synonyms
yell
He was out there shouting and yelling.
shout
We began to shout for help.
scream
If I hear one more joke about my hair, I shall scream.
howl
The baby was howling for her 3am feed.
bawl
They were shouting and bawling at each other.
(noun)
Definition
a loud and persistent noise or outcry
Kathryn's quiet voice stilled the clamour.
Synonyms
noise
There was too much noise in the room and he needed peace.
shouting
racket
The racket went on past midnight.
outcry
She was later reinstated in her job after a public outcry.
din
They tried to make themselves heard over the din of the crowd.
uproar
The announcement caused uproar in the crowd.
agitation
He was in a state of emotional agitation.
blare
commotion
He heard a terrible commotion outside.
babel
hubbub
a hubbub of excited conversation from over a thousand people