clarion

1. 1.

   loud and clear

   “a clarion call”

   Similarloud

Other forms of clarion

plural

clarions·

past tense

clarioned·

present participle

clarioning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clarion

What does clarion mean?

clarion means "blow the clarion". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clarion?

clarion has 3 syllables: clar-i-on. The stress falls on "clar". In IPA it is /ˈklɛɹiən/.

Is clarion a common word?

clarion is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.