A crowd with its mouths open. Many voices arrive at the same moment, so what reaches you is one thick sheet of sound rather than separate words. Everything clamour does grows out of that sheet: sometimes it is only noise, and sometimes the noise has a demand inside it.
From the word’s history
From Latin clāmor, 'a shout, a cry', from clāmō, 'to cry out, to complain'. The shout is still sitting at the centre of the English word, which is why both the noise senses and the demanding senses feel like one word rather than two.
來自拉丁文 clāmor（喊叫聲），而 clāmor 來自 clāmō（大聲叫、抱怨）。那個「喊」到今天還在字的中心，所以「一片吵鬧」和「大聲要求」用起來才會像同一個字，而不是兩個。
Wiktionary entry for clamour, packet evidence kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:728867280 — etymology_text: 'From Latin clāmor (a shout, cry), from clāmō (cry out, complain).'
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