resound
Americanverb (used without object)
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to echo or ring with sound, as a place.
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to make an echoing sound, or sound loudly, as a metallic object.
A gong resounded.
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to ring or be echoed, as sounds.
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to be celebrated or notably important.
His name resounds in the pages of history.
verb (used with object)
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to reecho (a sound).
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to give forth or utter loudly.
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to proclaim loudly (praise, disapproval, etc.).
verb
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to ring or echo with sound; reverberate
the hall resounded with laughter
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to make a prolonged echoing noise
the trumpet resounded
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(of sounds) to echo or ring
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to be widely famous
his achievements resounded throughout India
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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resoundsimple
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resoundssimple
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have resoundedperfect
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has resoundedperfect
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am resoundingprogressive
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are resoundingprogressive
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is resoundingprogressive
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have been resoundingperfect progressive
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has been resoundingperfect progressive
Past
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resoundedsimple
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had resoundedperfect
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was resoundingprogressive
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were resoundingprogressive
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had been resoundingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of resound
1350–1400; Middle English resounen < Middle French resoner < Latin resonāre, equivalent to re- re- + sonāre to sound 1
Explanation
To resound is to echo with sounds, usually loudly. When you sing in the shower, your voice resounds. If you remember that re means again, then resounding makes a lot of sense: it's what happens when a sound rings out or echoes. A loud, booming voice is more likely to resound than a little whisper. If you stand on a building, yell your name, and then hear it again, it resounded. Resounding is also called echoing, ringing, and reverberating. If you've ever heard a ring announcer, the microphone helps his or her voice resound to the crowd.
Vocabulary lists containing resound
Power Prefix: re-
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Common Senses: Son ("Sound")
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Example Sentences
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But as “Buzz Me In” so powerfully reminds us, the music created at the Record Plant will resound for as long as human beings love music.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2025
Veterans issues resound in Montana, which has the second-highest percentage of veterans in the U.S. among the adult civilian population, according to the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
But social networks still resound with complaints that messages from constituents still often go unreturned.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
Nearby, excavators resound as they demolish some of the 80-90% of buildings estimated to have suffered quake damage.
From Reuters ● May 9, 2023
Or maybe she simply could not hear him past her own breathing, so loud in her ears the house seemed to resound with it; she thought the neighbors must be able to hear.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
The gloriously confident Eden and the tormented Don seek clashing versions of artistic success, and when both eventually arrive there, the clash resounds and lingers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
“The prose is magnificent, mature and breathtakingly precise, and the collection resounds with a sensitivity and wisdom rarely seen in a debut,” noted the judges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
In Schubert’s song “Der Doppelgänger,” a piano resounds with increasingly tormented chords as the narrator recounts a realization: that a pained stranger, wringing his hands in the night, is in fact himself.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Part persuasive plea, part scathing screed, its clarion call for justice resounds through the centuries.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
“You know how Dad’s going away for the week? We—” He nods at his room, where music and laughter and uniformity resounds.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
“It resounded in the minds and memories of literate people, as well as of those who acquired it only by listening.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
But Thoreau’s show of civil disobedience has resounded down the ages, creating a political legacy claimed by liberals and conservatives, libertarians and Marxists External link.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
It was a message that resounded with many voters.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
The battle cry of the Confederacy resounded a long way from its home, but throughout the Civil War, you could hear it in secessionist hangouts like the old Bella Union Hotel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
The crash as they met resounded in the still air and echoed back from the palace wall.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Burnham, 56, arrived at Downing Street to resounding applause from supporters and acknowledged he was the country's seventh prime minister since the start of 2016.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Ten to 2 is a pretty resounding indication of what the jury felt about this case,” he said, “and we felt that way from the very beginning.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Both Paxton and Platner won resounding victories in their primaries over more establishment candidates who were comparatively free of scandal.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
The advice from the experts BBC News spoke to was resounding: the best place to swim is somewhere supervised.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
With a resounding thump the whole pile—sled, dogs, gear, and me, upside down—plummeted into a heap in the bottom of what seemed to be a deep gully.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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