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Vociferous vs Clamour - What's the difference?

vociferous | clamour |

As an adjective vociferous

is making or characterized by a noisy outcry; clamorous.

As a noun clamour is

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As a verb clamour is

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vociferous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Making or characterized by a noisy outcry; clamorous.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 23 , author=Alasdair Lamont , title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Hearts' threat had not evaporated, though, and Templeton fired a yard over the bar before the home fans and players made vociferous handball claims against Jamie Carragher, which were ignored by referee Florian Meyer.}}
  • * 1909 , , The Foreigner , ch. 17:
    • They crowded around him with vociferous welcome, Brown leading in a series of wild cheers.

    Synonyms

    * noisy

    Derived terms

    * vociferously * vociferousness

    Related terms

    * vocal * vociferation

    References

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    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) ----