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Clamour vs Cacophony - What's the difference?

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Clamour is a related term of cacophony.


As nouns the difference between clamour and cacophony

is that clamour is while cacophony is a mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.

As a verb clamour

is .

clamour

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (US spelling)

Noun

(en noun)
  • * Chaucer (Wife of Bath's Tale)
  • *:Ffor which oppression was swich clamour
  • * Shakespeare (Love's Labours Lost)
  • *:Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.
  • * Addison
  • *:Here the loud Arno's boist'rous clamours cease.
  • (Macaulay)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To salute loudly.
  • * Milton
  • The people with a shout / Rifted the air, clamouring their god with praise.
  • (obsolete) To stun with noise.
  • * Bacon
  • Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.
  • (obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
  • (Bishop Warburton)

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) ----

    cacophony

    English

    Noun

    (cacophonies)
  • A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
  • * 1921-1922, ,
  • Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.

    Antonyms

    * euphony * harmony

    Derived terms

    * cacophonic * cacophonous