cacophony

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ca·coph·o·ny

(kə-kŏf′ə-nē)

n. pl. ca·coph·o·nies

1. Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance: heard a cacophony of horns during the traffic jam.

2. The use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition, as for poetic effect.

[French cacophonie, from Greek kakophōniā, from kakophōnos, cacophonous; see cacophonous.]

cacophony

(kəˈkɒfənɪ)

n, pl -nies

1. harsh discordant sound; dissonance

2. (Phonetics & Phonology) the use of unharmonious or dissonant speech sounds in language

ca•coph•o•ny

(kəˈkɒf ə ni)

n., pl. -nies.

1. harsh discordance of sound; dissonance.

2. a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds.

[1650–60; < New Latin < Greek]

cac•o•phon•ic (ˌkæk əˈfɒn ɪk) adj.

cacophony

1. a harshness of sound.
2. discordant noise. — cacophonic, cacophonous, adj.

cacophony

noun discord, racket, din, dissonance, disharmony, stridency The whole place erupted in a cacophony of sound.

Translations

Kakophonie Katzenmusik Kakofonie

kakofonia

ふきょうわおん不協和音

kakofonie

cacófatocacofonia

какофония

cacophony

[kæˈkɒfənɪ] N → cacofonía f

cacophony

[kəˈkɒfəni] n [voices, sound] → cacophonie f

cacophony

n → Kakophonie f (geh), → Missklang m

cacophony

[kəˈkɒfənɪ] n (frm) → cacofonia

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He objected to Roscoe Sherriff's polluting this fair night with his cacophony.

View in context

From the common man to the power elite, each side weighed in on the spectacle in a cacophony of opinions.

Humanitarian Grounds

Kristen Allred has released a new collection called Nature's Cacophony.

Nature's Cacophony: Eight Colorful and Dramatic Piano Solos, Book 1 and Book 2

It is the climate created by his arrival at the head of Labour that has encouraged anti-Semitic members to voice a cacophony of hate slurs.

Jeremy Corbyn is a legitimizer of anti-Semites

I use the Metro 10/12 times per week, on arrival at my station to be greeted by groups of ticketless teenagers with feet on the seats, often smoking and spitting and subjecting anyone in hearing distance to a cacophony of foul and obscene language.

Bad times on Metro; Views of the North

FEMALE MPs are put off contributing in the House of Commons by the "histrionics and cacophony of noise" during Prime Minister's Questions, according to the Speaker John Bercow.

Commons noise 'puts women off', says Speaker Bercow

Everything is layered on top of the other to create a cacophony of bass and room-filling grooves and it's impossible not to be swept along.

Beardyman's a cut above the beatbox crew

The sounds simply clash - quite literally a cacophony.

From cacophony to symphony

Christian rockers August Burns Red play at a frenetic pace, creating music that's both aggressive and sweeping, marked by small, delicate interludes in which the band's actual skill shines through, such as in "Provision,'' where the cacophony is replaced by icicle-drop percussion notes, or the gorgeous guitar lead introduction to "White Washed.

Seeing Red

Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society (Last Gasp) is a copiously--almost obsessively-documented history of a gang of arty pranksters you've likely never heard of.

A cacophonous world

Rather than read identities in a vertical hierarchy of colonizer versus colonized that also places all colonized voices in competition for hegemony, Byrd wants to disrupt that reifying narrative by reading along the horizon of colonized voices and using that cacophony to seek relational kinships among those many voices.

Jodi A. Byrd. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism

The United States has issued stinging criticism of Europe's weakness in managing the debt crisis, denouncing the cacophony among its leaders.

Noun	1.	cacophony - a loud harsh or strident noise blare, blaring, clamor, din noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"
	2.	cacophony - loud confusing disagreeable sounds dissonance - disagreeable sounds