Hubbub vs Clangour - What's the difference?
hubbub | clangour | Related terms |
A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.
* John Milton, Paradise Lost
(British, Canadian) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
* 1920 , , Chapter XXIV: Death and Love,
(British, Canadian) To make a clanging sound.
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Hubbub is a related term of clangour.
As nouns the difference between hubbub and clangour
is that hubbub is a confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket while clangour is (british|canadian) a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.As a verb clangour is
(british|canadian) to make a clanging sound.hubbub
English
Alternative forms
* whobub (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- At length a universal hubbub wild
- Of stunning sounds and voices all confused,
- Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear
- With loudest vehemence.
Synonyms
* See alsoclangour
English
Alternative forms
* clangor (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour , and making him mad.