different between clamour vs yowl
clamour
English
Alternative forms
- clamor (US spelling)
Etymology
From Latin cl?mor (“a shout, cry”), from cl?m? (“cry out, complain”)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?klæm.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?klæm.?/
- Rhymes: -æm?(r)
Noun
clamour (countable and uncountable, plural clamours)
- British spelling and Canadian spelling spelling of clamor
- c. 1595-1596 William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost
- Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.
- c. 1595-1596 William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost
Verb
clamour (third-person singular simple present clamours, present participle clamouring, simple past and past participle clamoured)
- Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
- (transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
- (transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Counsel
- Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Counsel
- (transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Warburton to this entry?)
Middle English
Etymology
Anglo-Norman clamour, from an earlier clamur, from Latin clamor
Noun
clamour (plural clamours)
- shout; cry; clamor
Synonyms
- crie, crye
Old French
Noun
clamour f (oblique plural clamours, nominative singular clamour, nominative plural clamours)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling of clamur
- querele oie ne pleinte ne clamour
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yowl
English
Etymology
From Middle English yollen, past participle of yellen (“to yell”). More at yell, yollen.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?l
Noun
yowl (plural yowls)
- A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl.
Translations
Verb
yowl (third-person singular simple present yowls, present participle yowling, simple past and past participle yowled)
- (intransitive) Utter a yowl.
- (transitive) Express by yowling; utter with a yowl.
Derived terms
- yowler
Translations
Anagrams
- Lowy, owly
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