CLARION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clarion mean? 

• CLARION (noun)
  The noun CLARION has 1 sense:

1. a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone

  Familiarity information: CLARION used as a noun is very rare.

• CLARION (adjective)
  The adjective CLARION has 1 sense:

1. loud and clear

  Familiarity information: CLARION used as an adjective is very rare.

• CLARION (verb)
  The verb CLARION has 2 senses:

1. blow the clarion

2. proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion

  Familiarity information: CLARION used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLARION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("clarion" is a kind of...):

brass; brass instrument (a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece)

Derivation:

clarion (proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion)

clarion (blow the clarion)

• CLARION (adjective)

Comparative: clarioner   
Superlative: clarionest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud and clear

Context example:

a clarion call

Similar:

loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)

• CLARION (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blow the clarion

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "clarion" is one way to...):

play (perform music on (a musical instrument))

Domain category:

music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))

music ((music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

clarion (a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "clarion" is one way to...):

exclaim; proclaim; promulgate (state or announce)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

clarion (a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone)

 Context examples 

Certain it was that I was lapsing into sleep, the open-eyed sleep of one who yields to a sweet fascination, when there came through the snow-stilled air a long, low wail, so full of woe and pity that it woke me like the sound of a clarion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)