Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable)An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.

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

Examples

16 sentences

  1. The hall resounded with pealing bells.

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  2. From above resounded a deafening cry.

    ruСверху раздался оглушительный рёв. — odexed

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  3. From above resounded a deafening howl.

    ruСверху раздался оглушительный рёв. — odexed

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  4. Algeria is making resounding economic progress.

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  5. He let out a resounding laugh.

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Origin

From Late Middle English resoun, reson (“echoing or reverberating sound; clangour, din, no

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)).

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Forms

plural: resounds
Singularresound
Pluralresounds

regular

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
resonantB2resonateC1resortB1resourceB1resourcefulresourcefulness

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