| 单词 | clarion |
| 释义 | clarion (once / 3744 pages) 1adj 2nv If you hear the clarion call of the stage, it means you want to be an actor. Clarion means loud and clear, and a clarion call is a call to something that is hard to ignore. A clarion is a medieval horn with a clear sound. Hard to ignore, but also pure and clear in tone. There's nothing shrill about a "clarion call." Martin Luther King Jr.'s clarion call for all races in the US to live together in peace and harmony has lived on after his death. WORD FAMILYclarion: clarioned, clarioning, clarions USAGE EXAMPLESI think a lot of people saw it as a clarion call articulating exactly the fear and anger that they felt in response to it. BBC(Dec 16, 2016) The phrase is the propagandist’s clarion call that captures our divided country and explains our broken system. Slate(Dec 09, 2016) She was found early Tuesday afternoon and taken to a hospital in Clarion. Washington Times(Nov 23, 2016) 1 adj loud and clear 2a clarion call Syn loud characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity 1n a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone Hyper 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 2v blow the clarion Hyper play perform music on (a musical instrument) 3v proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion Hyper exclaim, proclaim, promulgate state or announce |
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