clarion

Meaning

Noun

1. (historical, poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
2. (broadly, poetic) The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.
3. (broadly) An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).
4. (broadly) The middle register of the clarinet.
5. A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.

Adj

Of a sound, a voice, a message, etc.: brilliantly clear.

Verb

1. (rare, transitive) To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
2. (figuratively, rare, transitive) To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
3. (also, figuratively, rare, transitive) Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
4. (intransitive, rare) To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.

Synonyms

bugle

trumpet

🎺

horn

clarity

ringing

shrill

brass wind

brass wind instrument

megaphone-shaped trumpet

bright

revivalistic

clear

cornet

klaxon

Translations

clairon

clarim

clarín

tuba

zurna

vazıh

açık

deutlich

klaroen

temiz

clarí

schmetternd

σάλπιγγας

claironnant

καμπανιστός

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈklæ.ɹɪ.ən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: clarion

Inherited from Middle English: clariounen

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English clarion, clarioun (“trumpet with a narrow tube and a shrill sound, clarion; clarion player”) [and other forms], from Old French claron, clarïon (“clarion”) [and other forms], from Medieval Latin clāriōn, clario, clārōn (“clarion; trumpet”), from Latin clārus (“audible; clear, distinct, loud; (visually) bright, clear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, summon; to cry”).
The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun.