clarion
IPA: kɫˈɛriʌn
noun
- (music, historical or 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.
- (by extension)
- (poetic) The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.
- (music) An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).
- (heraldry) 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.
- An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Wright County, Iowa, United States.
- A borough, the county seat of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A ghost town in Sanpete County, Utah, United States.
- A river in Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Allegheny River.
verb
- (transitive)
- To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
- (figuratively) To announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people.
- (also figuratively) Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
- (intransitive) To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.
adjective
- Of a sound, a voice, a message, etc.: brilliantly clear.
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Examples of "clarion" in Sentences
- He has been playing his clarion all day.
- He resumed the practice of law in Clarion.
- Ian from the Clarion added the Clarion himself.
- During the 1930s the paper was renamed 'The Clarion'.
- She is a graduate of the Clarion and the Milford Writers Workshops.
- He resumed the practice of his profession and died in Clarion in 1912.
- The agreement between Clarion and Belmond is the first such in the state.
- His words became the clarion call that led the colonies into the Revolution.
- In the United States, the 'Clarion' is also the name of several publications.
- He was president of the board of directors of the Clarion State Normal School.