clarion
Other forms: clarions; clarioned; clarioning
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 U.S. to live together in peace and harmony has lived on after his death.
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loud and clear“a clarion call”synonyms:loudcharacterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
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a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tonetype of:brass, brass instrumenta 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
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blow the clariontype of:playperform music on (a musical instrument)
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proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion
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Imprisoned in April, 1963 for protesting segregation, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote this letter to affirm that nonviolent civil disobedience was essential to achieving the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. Read the full text of the letter here.
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