Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Making sound: as, the sonorific quality of a body.
  • In zoology, sound-producing; making a noise, as the stridulating organs of a cricket: distinguished from vocal or phonetic. Also sonant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Producing sound.

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  • adjective Producing sound.

Etymologies

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Latin sonor, -oris, a sound + facere to make. See sonorous.

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