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Meaning of MURMUROUS

Pronunciation:  'murmurus

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren
 
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 Synonyms: rustling, soft, soughing, susurrous
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Mur"mur*ous\, a. [Cf. L. murmuriosus, OF. murmuros.]
Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint;
murmuring. [Archaic or Poetic]
      The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. --Tennyson.
 

 

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