clarion - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

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.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: clarion

1	adj	loud and clear
2	n v	a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone blow the clarion

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: clarion

1

adj loud and clear

“a clarion call”

Synonyms: loud
characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity

2

n a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone

Type of:: 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

v blow the clarion

Type of:: play
perform music on (a musical instrument)

v proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion

Type of:: exclaim, proclaim, promulgate
state or announce