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Resound

//ɹɪˈzaʊnd// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding. countable

    "Presently, out of the turmoil, the fighting of horses, the resound of blows, the murky cloud of dust and sand, he crawled, in time to see the Corinthian and Byzantine go on down the course after Ben-Hur, who had not been an instant delayed."

  2. 2
    The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance. uncountable

    "And you ô trees (if any life there lies / In trees) now though your porous barkes receave / The straunge resounde of these my causeful cries: […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly. transitive

    "VVith noyſe vvhereof the quyre of Byrds reſounded / their anthemes ſvveet devized of loues prayſe, / that all the vvoods theyr ecchoes back rebounded, / as if they knevv the meaning of their layes."

  2. 2
    To echo or repeat (a sound). transitive

    "Any new alarms, from any patient, will resound the alarm tone."

  3. 3
    emit a noise wordnet
  4. 4
    Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo. transitive

    "The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, […]"

  5. 5
    To sound again. intransitive
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  1. 6
    ring or echo with sound wordnet
  2. 7
    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. transitive

    "This is the famous Promontory of Sigeum, honored vvith the ſepulcher of Achilles, vvhich Alexander (viſiting it in his Aſian expedition) couered vvith flovvers, and ranne naked about it, as then the cuſtome vvas in funerals: ſacrificing to the ghoſt of his kinſman, vvhom he reputed moſt happie, that had ſuch a trumpet as Homer, to reſound his vertues."

  3. 8
    To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.). transitive

    "As far as the immediate area, [the greatest anti-gay influence] has got to be the Church; it's definitely the Mormon Church. You know the current Moral Majority movement seems to be a likening to that. You know many Mormons may not like Reverend Falwell, but they'll certainly resound his sentiments."

  4. 9
    Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise. intransitive

    "The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game."

  5. 10
    Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring. intransitive

    "[W]hen thoſe pittifull outcries he [Proteus] heard, / Through all the ſeas ſo ruefully reſovvnd, / His charett ſvvifte in haſt he thether ſteard, […]"

  6. 11
    Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously. intransitive

    "The sound of the brass band resounded through the town."

  7. 12
    Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time. figuratively, intransitive
  8. 13
    Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned. figuratively, intransitive

    "[I]t ſeemes that this place is conuerted into the Paſtoral Arcadia, it is ful of ſhepheards and ſheepfolds, and there is no one part thereof vvherein the name of the beautifull Leandra reſoundeth not: […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”).

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