resound.
To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
Meaning & usage
To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.
To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.
Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.
Where this word comes from
From both of the following: * From Late Middle English resounen (“to return with an echo, resound; to make a sound, to sound; of speech or writing: to announce a theme”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman resoner, resouner [and other forms], Middle French resoner, and Old French resoner (“to make a (deep or echoing) sound; of sounds: to echo; to ring; of one’s name or actions: to be frequently recounted; of a place: to re-echo or ring with sound”) (modern French résonner), from Latin resonāre, the present active infinitive of resonō (“to ring or sound again, re-echo, resound; to call repeatedly; to give back the sound of (something), re-echo or resound (something)”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonō (“to make a noise, resound, sound; to sound (something); to speak or utter (something); to call, cry out; to celebrate; to extol, praise; to sing”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound”)). * From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”). Cognates * Catalan ressonar * Italian resonare (obsolete), risonare * Old Occitan resonar * Portuguese ressoar, ressonar, resonar (obsolete) * Spanish resonar
An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.
The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.
Where this word comes from
From Late Middle English resoun, reson (“echoing or reverberating sound; clangour, din, noise”), from Old French reson, and from its etymon Latin resonus (“echoing, resounding”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonus (“sound; noise; pitch; speech; (figuratively) character, style, tone; tongue, voice”) (from sonō (verb) (see further at etymology 1) + -us (suffix forming nouns)). * (Received Pronunciation) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹɪˈsaʊnd/, /-ˈzaʊnd/ * Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) Audio: (file) * (General American) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹəˈsaʊnd/, /ɹi-/, /-ˈzaʊnd/ * Audio (General American): (file) Audio: (file) * Rhymes: -aʊnd * Hyphenation: re‧sound
To echo or repeat (a sound).
To sound again.
Where this word comes from
From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”).
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