Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make a loud, prolonged, or reverberating sound: synonym: echo.
- intransitive verb To be filled with sound; reverberate.
- intransitive verb To be talked about, celebrated, or extolled.
- intransitive verb To send back (sound).
- intransitive verb To utter or emit loudly.
- intransitive verb To celebrate or praise, as in verse or song.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Return of sound; echo.
- To sound again or repeatedly: as, to
resound a note or a syllable. - To sound again: as, the trumpet sounded and resounded.
- To sound back; ring; echo; reverberate; be tilled with sound; sound by sympathetic vibration.
- To sound loudly; give forth a loud sound.
- To be echoed; be sent back, as sound.
- To be much mentioned; be fumed.
- To sound again; send back sound; echo.
- To sound; praise or celebrate with the voice or the sound of instruments; extol with sounds; spread the fame of.
- Synonyms To reecho, reverberate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Return of sound; echo.
- transitive verb To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
- transitive verb To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
- intransitive verb To sound loudly.
- intransitive verb To be filled with sound; to ring.
- intransitive verb To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound.
- intransitive verb To be mentioned much and loudly.
- intransitive verb To echo or reverberate; to be resonant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive to
sound again - verb transitive to
echo a sound - verb intransitive to
reverberate with sound ornoise - verb intransitive to make a reverberating sound
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb emit a noise
- verb ring or echo with sound
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Moslems and made their name resound throughout Africa, even to the shores of Asia.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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Her grass-grown streets will once again resound with traffic.
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There lies in it a truth, a beauty, and a grandeur which I am convinced will make his name resound through many lands!
The True Story of My Life Andersen, Hans Christian, 1805-1875 1847
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There lies in it a truth, a beauty, and a grandeur which I am convinced will make his name resound through many lands!
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"they made his name resound every where, ut littus Styla, Styla, omne sonaret."
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Tar - gonne heard her name resound in Roderick's mind: "Mina!
Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000
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Among the glaring omissions was the pileated woodpecker, a large, handsome red-crested bird whose loud calls resound through our woods.
This App Is for the Birds Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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"Let that word resound from hill to hill and from mountain to mountain, from valley to valley across this broad land," he exclaimed.
Robert Byrd's Passions: Poetry, Power And Home-State Pork 2010
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“Let that word resound from hill to hill and from mountain to mountain, from valley to valley across this broad land,” he thundered, raising his right hand.
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Let that word resound from hill to hill and from mountain to mountain, from valley to valley across this broad land.
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