sounder.
Something or someone who makes a sound.
Meaning & usage
Something or someone who makes a sound.
a telephone with an electronic sounder
An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
A stethoscope.
Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound + -er.
A device for making soundings at sea.
A person who takes soundings.
A fishfinder.
Where this word comes from
From French sonder.
A group of wild boar.
A young boar.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English soundre, from Anglo-Norman soundre, Old Northern French sondre, from a Germanic language, probably Old English sunor (“herd of swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *suniʀu, plural of *sun (“swine, boar”), from Proto-Germanic *sunaz (“boar”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bring forth, bear, give birth”). Cognate with Dutch zeunie (“trough, drinking bowl”).
comparative form of sound: more sound
Where this word comes from
From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ġesundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound + -er (comparative suffix).
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