different between clamor vs clatter

English

Alternative forms

• clamour (UK English)

Etymology

Recorded in English since c. 1385, as Middle English clamour, from Old French clamor (modern clameur), from Latin cl?mor (“a shout, cry”), from cl?m? (“cry out, complain”); the sense to silence may have a distinct (unknown) etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?klæm.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæm.?/
• Homophone: clammer
• Rhymes: -æm?(?)

Noun

clamor (countable and uncountable, plural clamors) (American spelling)

1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
2. Any loud and continued noise.
3. A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

Synonyms

• (great outcry): outcry, tumult

Derived terms

• clamorous
• clamorously
• clamorousness

Related terms

Translations

Verb

clamor (third-person singular simple present clamors, present participle clamoring, simple past and past participle clamored) (American spelling)

1. (intransitive) To cry out and/or demand.

   Anyone who tastes our food seems to clamor for more.

2. (transitive) To demand by outcry.

   Thousands of demonstrators clamoring the government's resignation were literally deafening, yet their cries fell in deaf ears

   • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

     The distinctness of London has led many to clamor for the capital to pursue its own policies, especially on immigration. The British prime minister, David Cameron, is a Conservative. So is the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. But they have diametrically opposed views on immigration.

3. (intransitive) To become noisy insistently.

   After a confused murmur the audience soon clamored

4. (transitive) To influence by outcry.

   His many supporters successfully clamor his election without a formal vote

5. (obsolete, transitive) To silence.

Synonyms

• (to cry out): din

Translations

Anagrams

• Colmar, molrac

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan clamor, from Latin cl?mor, cl?m?rem (“a shout, cry”), from cl?m? (“cry out, complain”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kl??mo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kla?mo?/
• Rhymes: -o(?)

Noun

clamor m or f (plural clamors)

1. clamor

Synonyms

• clam

Latin

Etymology

From cl?m? (“complain, cry out”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kla?.mor/, [?k??ä?m?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kla.mor/, [?kl??m?r]

Noun

cl?mor m (genitive cl?m?ris); third declension

1. a shout, shouting
2. an acclamation, applause
3. a clamor, cry, outcry, protest
4. a noise, sound

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

• English: clamor, clamour
• French: clameur
• Italian: clamore
• Portuguese: clamor
• Spanish: clamor

References

• clamor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• clamor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clamor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• clamor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old French

Alternative forms

• clamour
• clamur

Etymology

From Latin cl?mor, cl?m?rem.

Noun

clamor m (oblique plural clamors, nominative singular clamors, nominative plural clamor)

1. clamor (continued shouting and uproar)

Descendants

• English: clamor, clamour
• French: clameur

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cl?mor, cl?m?rem.

Noun

clamor m (plural clamores)

1. din (loud noise)

   Synonyms: estrépido, algazarra

Related terms

• clamar
• chamar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cl?mor, cl?m?rem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla?mo?/, [kla?mo?]

Noun

clamor m (plural clamores)

1. a clamor, shout
2. a protest, outcry
3. a loud noise

Derived terms

• clamorear

Related terms

• clamar
• llamar

Further reading

• “clamor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English clatren (“to make a rattling sound”), from Old English *clatrian (attested as the Late Old English gerund clatrung), of onomatopoeic origin.

The noun, derived from the verb, is first attested in the 14^th century.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?klæt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?klæt?/
• Rhymes: -æt?(?)
• Hyphenation: clat?ter

Verb

clatter (third-person singular simple present clatters, present participle clattering, simple past and past participle clattered)

1. (intransitive) To make a rattling sound.
   • 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:

     Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard,

     And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred;

     He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there

     But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,

     Bess, the landlord's daughter,

     Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

2. (transitive) To cause to make a rattling noise.
   • 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy

     You clatter still your brazen kettle.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Chapter V:

     When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...

3. (intransitive) To chatter noisily or rapidly.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     But if that I knewe what his name hight,
     For clatering of me I would him ?one quight;
     For his fal?e lying, of that I ?pake never,
     I could make him ?hortly repent him forever: […]

   • I see thou dost but clatter.

4. (Northern England) To hit; to smack.
   • 1988, Harry Enfield, Friday Night Live:

     "I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”

   • 2010, Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till:

     “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.

Derived terms

• clatterer
• clattering
• clatteringly

Translations

Noun

clatter (plural clatters)

1. A rattling noise; a repetition of abrupt, sharp sounds.
2. A loud disturbance.
3. Noisy talk or chatter.

Synonyms

• commotion
• racket

Derived terms

• clattery

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “clatter”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• clatter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.