resound
UK /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/ · US /ɹəˈzaʊnd/ verb, noun
Forms resounds resounding resounded re-sound
- verb To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
- verb Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
- verb 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.
- verb To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
- verb Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise. “The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.”
- verb Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
- verb 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.”
- verb Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
- noun (countable) An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.
- noun (uncountable) The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.
- verb (transitive) To echo or repeat (a sound).
- verb (intransitive) To sound again.
Synonyms
Etymology
* 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”).
* Italian resonare (obsolete), risonare
* Old Occitan resonar
* Portuguese ressoar, ressonar, resonar (obsolete)
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/
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* (General American) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹəˈsaʊnd/, /ɹi-/, /-ˈzaʊnd/
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From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
- verb To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
- verb To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
- verb 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.
Etymology [OE. resounen, OF. resoner, F. résonner, from L. resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to make a noise.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “resound”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details