“sounds” is a form of
sound
/ˈsaʊ̯nd/ adjective, adverb, interjection, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms sounder soundest sounds sounding sounded The Sound soune sownd sowne
- adjective Healthy. “He was safe and sound.”
- adjective Complete, solid, or secure. “Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.”
- adjective (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
- adjective (UK, Ireland, slang) Good; acceptable; decent. “How are you? —I'm sound.”
- adjective (of sleep) Quiet and deep. “Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.”
- adjective Heavy; laid on with force. “a sound beating”
- adjective Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective. “a sound title to land”
- adverb Soundly.
- interjection (UK, Ireland, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding. “I found my jacket. — Sound.”
- noun A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. “He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. Nobody made a sound.”
- noun A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
- noun (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
- noun Noise without meaning; empty noise.
- noun Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard. “Stay within the sound of my voice.”
- noun (phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
- verb (intransitive) To produce a sound. “When the horn sounds, take cover.”
- verb (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound. “He sounded good when we last spoke.”
- verb (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
- verb (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
- verb (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy. “In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction.”
Synonyms
noise echo reecho resonate Plymouth Sound Devon England auditory sensation audio phone speech sound strait go voice vocalize vocalise fathom healthy intelligent levelheaded level-headed good reasoned well-grounded legal effectual heavy profound wakeless
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundaz (“healthy”), merged with synonymous Old English ġesund, from Proto-West Germanic *gasund.
Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Possibly related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.
* Noun: from Middle English sownde, alteration of soun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sun, soun, Old French son, from accusative of Latin sonus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound, resound”).
* Verb: from Middle English sownden, sounen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suner, sounder, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin sonō.
* The hypercorrect -d appears in the fifteenth century. (Compare dialectal drownd, gownd for the same development.)
Displaced native Middle English swei, from Old English swēġ, from Proto-Germanic *swōgiz.
From Middle English sound, sund (“body of water; swimming; air bladder of a fish”), from Old English sund (“the power, capacity, or act of swimming; swimming; sea; ocean; water; sound; strait; channel”), Old Norse sund (“channel, inlet, strait”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“swimming; sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea”).
Cognate with Dutch zond (“sound; strait”), Danish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Swedish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Icelandic sund (“sound; strait; channel”), German Sund. Related to swim.
From Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line”) of Germanic origin, compare Old English sundgyrd (“a sounding rod”), sundline (“a sounding line”), Old English sund (“water, sea”). More at Etymology 3 above.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
- noun A cuttlefish. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
- adjective Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.
- adjective Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; --said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.
Etymology [AS. sund a swimming, akin to E. swim. See Swim.]
Etymology [OE. sound, AS. sund; akin to D. gezond, G. gesund, OHG. gisunt, Dan. & Sw. sund, and perhaps to L. sanus. Cf. Sane.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “sound”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details