CLAMORING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clamoring mean? 

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

1. loud and persistent outcry from many people

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAMORING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud and persistent outcry from many people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

clamor; clamoring; clamour; clamouring; hue and cry

Context example:

he ignored the clamor of the crowd

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

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

Derivation:

clamor (make loud demands)

clamor (utter or proclaim insistently and noisily)

 Context examples 

He remembered that all these manuscripts had been refused by the very magazines that were now clamoring for them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Whilst Chandos had been conversing with the two knights a continuous stream of suitors had been ushered in, adventurers seeking to sell their swords and merchants clamoring over some grievance, a ship detained for the carriage of troops, or a tun of sweet wine which had the bottom knocked out by a troop of thirsty archers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A score of men were on their feet clamoring for recognition from the chair.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The type-writer people were again clamoring for money, insistently pointing out that according to the agreement rent was to be paid strictly in advance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sometimes it seems to me that all the world, all life, everything, had taken up residence inside of me and was clamoring for me to be the spokesman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was two months behind with his type-writer, and the agency was clamoring for payment or for the return of the machine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)