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Definition: Clarion |
ClarionAdjective1. Loud and clear; "a clarion call". Noun1. A medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone. Verb1. Blow the clarion. 2. Proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clarion" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Clarion \Clar"i*on\, noun. [from Old English expression clarioun, Old French clarion, French clairon, Late Latin expression clario, claro; so called from its clear tone, from the Latin expression clarus clear. See Clear.]. (references) |
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Computing | Clarion |
Fine Arts | A small trumpet; 4 ft on manual and pedal. An octave reed, varying considerably in power and quality according to the 16 ft and 8 ft stops with which it is associated. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Clarion is a programming language and Integrated Development Environment from Softvelocity ([1]) used to program database applications. It is compatible with several database formats including all SQL, ADO, and XML, and can output to HTML, XML. plaintext, and PDF, among others. As of the time of writing, Clarion is on version 6.Clarion is also a name of some places in the United States of America:
- Clarion, Iowa
- Clarion, Pennsylvania
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Clarion."
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Clarion is a city located in Wright County, Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 2,968. It is the county seat of Wright County6.Geography
Clarion is located at 42°43'52" North, 93°43'52" West (42.731112, -93.731095)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.1 km² (2.7 mi²). 7.1 km² (2.7 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 2,968 people, 1,255 households, and 786 families residing in the city. The population density is 418.2/km² (1,081.6/mi²). There are 1,355 housing units at an average density of 190.9/km² (493.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 93.67% White, 0.20% African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 5.53% from other races, and 0.24% from two or more races. 9.80% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,255 households out of which 27.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.5% are married couples living together, 6.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 37.3% are non-families. 33.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 19.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.29 and the average family size is 2.89. In the city the population is spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 23.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 90.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.7 males. The median income for a household in the city is $37,026, and the median income for a family is $47,083. Males have a median income of $28,281 versus $23,077 for females. The per capita income for the city is $18,431. 9.9% of the population and 5.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 12.4% are under the age of 18 and 7.2% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Clarion, Iowa."
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Clarion is a borough located in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 6,185. It is the county seat of Clarion County6.Geography
Clarion is located at 41°12'42" North, 79°23'2" West (41.211791, -79.384005)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 3.9 km² (1.5 mi²). 3.9 km² (1.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.97% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 6,185 people, 2,000 households, and 718 families residing in the borough. The population density is 1,602.7/km² (4,142.8/mi²). There are 2,192 housing units at an average density of 568.0/km² (1,468.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough is 94.55% White, 3.48% African American, 0.08% Native American, 0.99% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.15% from other races, and 0.76% from two or more races. 0.82% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 2,000 households out of which 15.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 25.3% are married couples living together, 8.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 64.1% are non-families. 38.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.17 and the average family size is 2.75. In the borough the population is spread out with 8.8% under the age of 18, 56.4% from 18 to 24, 13.1% from 25 to 44, 11.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 22 years. For every 100 females there are 73.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 71.2 males. The median income for a household in the borough is $19,902, and the median income for a family is $40,208. Males have a median income of $31,204 versus $20,214 for females. The per capita income for the borough is $10,832. 41.2% of the population and 18.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 27.1% are under the age of 18 and 7.2% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Clarion, Pennsylvania."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Warfare | Battle, tug of war; (contention); service, campaigning, active service, tented field; kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel; fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command; password, watchword; passage d-armes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Clarion |
| Etymologies containing "clarion": Clarinet. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Clarion (1916) | |
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 | Soil profile of Clarion soil, one of Iowa's soil types. The soil survey identifies all soil types and gives guidance on use of the more than 400 soil types in the state. Credit: Erwin Cole. |  | Middle year girls - physical training. Clarion State Normal School. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Clarion State Normal School, Dec. 12, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Clarion, IA. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Along the river" by Kevin Rohr Commentary: "Red bush growing along the clarion river." |
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Sir Walter Scott | Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Little Gavroche marched on with all his might with this song, which made him a sort of clarion. |
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Economic History | Hungary | The member companies include AMC Hungary Kft., Amway Hungaria Marketing Kft., Avon Cosmetics Hungary Kft., Clarion Rt., Golden Neo-Life Diamite Int'l Kft., Lux Hungaria Kft., Oriflame Hungary Cosmetics Kft., Sunrider Hungary Kft., and Tupperware Trading Kft. (references) |
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| "Clarion" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.75% of the time. "Clarion" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50.75% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 49.25% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Clarion Co. Ltd. | USA | Clarion Commercial Holdings, Inc. |
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1. Clarion, IA (city, FIPS 13620) 2. Clarion, PA (borough, FIPS 13800) |
Expressions using "clarion": clarion call ♦ Clarion County ♦ clarion voice. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "clarion": clarion-call. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
clarion hotel | 2,119 | clarion stereo | 40 |
the clarion ledger | 1,714 | clarion hotel bay view | 37 |
clarion | 1,711 | clarion inn suite | 37 |
clarion pennsylvania | 234 | clarion hotels.com | 36 |
clarion university | 197 | clarion car stereo | 35 |
clarion inn | 162 | clarion suite hotel | 35 |
clarion car audio | 152 | clarion mortgage | 34 |
clarion audio | 147 | clarion hotel maingate | 33 |
clarion suite | 119 | clarion hotel winnipeg | 33 |
clarion ledger.com | 94 | clarion marine | 31 |
jackson clarion ledger | 72 | princeton daily clarion | 30 |
peninsula clarion | 59 | clarion hotel new orleans | 29 |
clarion news | 58 | clarion hotel orlando | 29 |
clarion hotel universal | 54 | clarion cd changer | 29 |
clarion vrx935vd | 52 | clarion river lodge | 28 |
clarion resort | 51 | clarion manual | 28 |
clarion iowa | 49 | clarion cd player | 28 |
clarion radio | 44 | clarion hotel san diego | 26 |
clarion ledger newspaper | 44 | clarion hospital | 26 |
clarion princeton | 40 | clarion health | 25 |
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| Language | Translations for "clarion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Trompë (trump, trumpet), Trombë (trump, trumpet), I Mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرتفع وواضح, هتاف (acclaim, acclamation, applause, cheer, cheering, cry, ejaculation, exclamation, hallo, ovation, plaudit, whoop, yell), صوت البوق (blare). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Звук На Тръба, Тръба, Рог, Регистър На Орган С Такъв Звук. (various references) | |
Czech | Polnice (bugle). (various references) | |
Dutch | signaalhoorn (horn, klaxon, warning device, warning horn), klaroen (army bugle, bugle), hoorn (earphone, hooter, horn, klaxon). (various references) | |
Esperanto | klariono. (various references) | |
Farsi | شیپورتیز, شیپور (Bugle, Horn, Trumpet). (various references) | |
French | clairon. (various references) | |
Greek | Εγερτήριοσ, Σάλπιγγασ, ίαμπανιστόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | רועה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | trombitakürt, harsona (trombone, trump). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bunyi nyaring. (various references) | |
Italian | Squillante (bright, lucid, luminous, sharp, shrill). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 明快 (clarity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | めいかい (clarity, clear understanding, hades, realm of the dead). (various references) | |
Manx | kiaullane (bell, bell small, blatancy, clamourer, handbell, noise in the ear, orchestra, racket, squeaker, toll, toll of bell, tolling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arionclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | clarinante, clarim (trumpet), trombeta (toot, trump, trumpet). (various references) | |
Romanian | Corn (antenna, bugle, cracknel, Crescent, horn), Trâmbiţã (trumpet), Goarnã (bugle, trumpet). (various references) | |
Russian | Призывной Звук, Призыв, Звук Рожка Или Горна, Горн, Рожок. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zvuk trube (blare, trump, tucket), vrsta trube. (various references) | |
Spanish | Clarín (bugle, bugler), Trompeta (trumpet), De Trompeta. (various references) | |
Swedish | Klar Och Högljudd, Gäll Stridstrumpet. (various references) | |
Turkish | Zurna, Yüksek (above, acro-, buoyant, elevated, exalted, high, highrise, hyper-, lofty, loud, over, penetrating, penetrative, spheric, stately, superior, tall), Duyurmak (advertise, advertize, announce, annunciate, broadcast, give forth, give out, give smth. publicity, noise abroad, notice, plead, proclaim, pronounce, publish), Davulla Zurnayla Duyurmak, Boru Sesi (blare, bugle call, clarion voice, sennet, tarantara, toot, trump), Boru Ýle Çalınan Müzik, Boru (barrel, bugle, channel, conduit, drain, duct, horn, pipe, trump, trumpet, tube), Berrak Ve Tiz Ses, Ýlan Etmek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Поклик, Звук Ріжка, Заклик, Горн, Ріжок. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | clarus, tuba. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clarion": clarioned, clarioning, clarions. (additional references) | |
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"Clarion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aldarion, cagion, cairon, calgarian, careion, careon, carino, carion, Carlinor, Chareyon, ciaron, Clairin, Clairson, clairvoy, Claredon, clarian, clarino, clario, clariol, clariton, Clarkin, clarri, clarton, Clavijo, Colawrean, Culcairn, Ilarrio, Mclarnon, Salarino. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clarion" (pronounced kle"rēun) |
| 5 | -e" r ē u n | agrarian, authoritarian, barbarian, carrion, centenarian, contrarian, disciplinarian, egalitarian, humanitarian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, nonsectarian, octogenarian, ovarian, parliamentarian, planarian, proletarian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, totalitarian, unitarian, utilitarian, vegetarian, veterinarian. |
| 4 | -r ē u n | centurion, criterion, Cyprian, equestrian, historian, hyperborean, pagurian, pedestrian, praetorian, presbyterian, salutatorian, valedictorian, valerian. |
| 3 | -ē u n | accordion, alien, amphibian, arcadian, bohemian, Campion, chameleon, champion, circadian, collodion, comedian, custodian, draconian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, lesbian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, oblivion, obsidian, Odeon, plutonian, scorpion, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, utopian. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: alnico, carlin, caroli, lorica, oilcan. | |
-2 letters: acorn, aloin, cairn, carol, claro, colin, coral, coria, linac, loran, narco, naric, nicol, noria, orcin, racon. | |
-3 letters: airn, anil, arco, aril, cain, calo, carl, carn, ciao, cion, clan, clon, coal, coil, coin, coir, cola, coni, corn, icon, inro, iron, laic, lain, lair, lari, liar, lino, lion, lira. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: acrolein, carbinol, carillon, caroling, cilantro, clarions, colinear, contrail, fornical, ironclad, ironical. | |
+2 letters: acroleins, arecoline, binocular, bronchial, cantorial, carbinols, carillons, carolling, censorial, cilantros, clamoring, clarioned, collaring, collinear, conciliar, contrails, coralline, cornelian, doctrinal, francolin, holandric, involucra, ironclads, nonracial, porcelain, prolactin, recoaling. | |
+3 letters: arecolines, binoculars, calorizing, caprioling, caracoling, carbonylic, carpooling, ceremonial, chloramine, chlorinate, citronella, clamouring, clangoring, clarioning, coloration, complainer, contrarily, corallines, corelating, cornelians, corralling, craniology, falconries, fractional, francolins, frictional, iconolatry, inculcator, inoculator, interlocal, involucral, ironically, isochronal, laceration, lectionary, microtonal, monarchial, noncaloric, normalcies, porcelains, pratincole, prolactins, provincial, relocating, relocation, tinctorial, tractional, trinocular, ulceration, ultrasonic, unilocular. | |
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