Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - clamor

 I. noun  Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French clamour, from Latin ~, from clamare to cry out — more at claim  Date: 14th century  1.  a. noisy shouting  b. a loud continuous noise  2. insistent public expression (as of support or protest) a ~ against increased taxes  II. verb  (~ed; ~ing)  Date: 14th century  intransitive verb  1. to make a din  2. to become loudly insistent ~ed for his impeachment  transitive verb  1. to utter or proclaim insistently and noisily  2. to influence by means of ~  III. transitive verb  Etymology: origin unknown  Date: 1611 obsolete silence