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Having a resonant metallic sound
Answer for the clue "Having a resonant metallic sound ", 10 letters:
clangorous
Word definitions for clangorous in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Making a clangor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clangorous \Clan"gor*ous\, a. [LL. clangorosus.] Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1712, from Medieval Latin clangorosus , from Latin clangor , or else from clangor + -ous . Related: Clangorously ; clangorousness .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having a loud resonant metallic sound; "the clangorous locomotive works"; "a clanging gong" [syn: clanging ]
Usage examples of clangorous.
So now having taken all measures, gliding among the portmanteaus, hand-barrows, and porters, and the clangorous bell ringing, he mounted, lithe and lank, into his place.
Sparks spattered and flashed as the sledges rose and fell in exquisite rhythm while the clangorous music roared through the big theatre.
Through the clangorous dance of thrust and parry, he resumed his belabored dialogue.
Unbidden, the torturesome, clangorous chords of the “Ninth Sonata” began to sound in his mind.
At Florence Green's here-and-now table there is a poet named Onward Christian or something whose spectacles have wide silver sidepieces rather than the dull brown horn sidepieces of true poets and weightlifters, and whose poems invariably begin: "Through all my clangorous hours.