Clarion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Loud and clear: a clarion call to resistance.
  • n. Music A medieval trumpet with a shrill clear tone.
  • n. Music The sound of this instrument or a sound resembling it.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A medieval brass instrument, related to the trumpet, or its sound.
  • adj. Loud and clear.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small high-pitched trumpet.
  • n. Hence, any sound resembling that of a clarion; any instrument which utters sounds like those of a clarion.
  • n. An organ-stop having pipes with reeds, which give a bright, piercing tone, usually an octave above the key struck.
  • n. In heraldry, a bearing common in very early English heraldry, and occasionally used on the continent, supposed to represent a musical wind-instrument.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. blow the clarion
  • v. proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion
  • adj. loud and clear
  • n. a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone
  • Equivalent
    loud   
    Verb Form
    clarioned    clarions   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    play    proclaim    exclaim    promulgate    brass instrument    brass   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    claro   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bavarian    Bulgarian    Darien    Hungarian    Kasparian    Libertarian    Marian    Marion    Parliamentarian    Unitarian   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bugle    hautboy    bell-like    stentorian    raucous    tambourine    dulcet    trumpet    flute-like    staccato