clangourとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• clangor (US, Canada)

語源

Borrowed from Latin clangor.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈklæŋ(ɡ)ə/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈklæŋ(ɡ)ɚ/
• 韻: -æŋə(ɹ), -æŋɡə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: clan‧gour

名詞

clangour (countable and uncountable, plural clangours)

1. (British, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 80:

     When every least commander’s will, best soldiers had obey’d, / And both the hosts were rang’d for fight, the Trojans would have fray’d / The Greeks with noises; crying out, in coming rudely on / At all parts, like the cranes that fill with harsh confusion / Of brutish clangour all the air; […]

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love,

     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.

   • 1957 May, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:

     H. G. Wells' stark short story "The Cone" tells of a man's macabre revenge worked out in the clangour of a great steel works and railway lines and sidings.

派生語

動詞

clangour (third-person singular simple present clangours, present participle clangouring, simple past and past participle clangoured)

1. (British, Canada) To make a clanging sound.
   • 1924, Jim Tully, Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography, page 67:

     It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb.