Meaning of RESOUND
| Pronunciation: | | ri'zawnd
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [v] emit a noise
- [v] ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
|
| |
| | Sponsored Links: | |
|
| |
| | Synonyms: | | echo, make noise, noise, reverberate, ring |
| |
| | See Also: | | backfire, blare, blast, bong, brattle, clack, clatter, claxon, clitter, consonate, crackle, creak, crunch, drown out, go, honk, howl, hum, jangle, jingle, jinglejangle, purl, racket, reecho, ring out, roar, scranch, scraunch, screak, scream, screech, sizzle, skreak, sound, squeak, stridulate | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
\Re*sound"\ (r?*zound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Resounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Resounding}.] [OE. resounen,
OF. resoner, F. r['e]sonner, from L. resonare; pref. re- re-
+ sonare to sound, sonus sound. See {Sound} to make a noise.]
1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound
with song.
3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. ``Common fame . .
. resounds back to them again.'' --South.
4. To be mentioned much and loudly. --Milton.
5. To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth
resounded with his praise.
\Re*sound"\, v. t.
1. To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to
reverberate.
Albion's cliffs resound the rur??ay. --Pope.
2. To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of
instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, Long
exercised in woes, O muse, resound. --Pope.
Syn: To echo; re["e]cho; reverberate; sound.
\Re*sound"\, n.
Return of sound; echo. --Beaumont.
|
| |
|
|