resound

[ri-zound]

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verb (used without object)

to echo or ring with sound, as a place.

to make an echoing sound, or sound loudly, as a metallic object: A gong resounded.

to ring or be echoed, as sounds.

to be celebrated or notably important: His name resounds in the pages of history.

verb (used with object)

to reecho (a sound).

to give forth or utter loudly.

to proclaim loudly (praise, disapproval, etc.).

Origin of resound

1350–1400; Middle English resounen < Middle French resoner < Latin resonāre, equivalent to re- re- + sonāre to sound¹

Can be confusedrebound redound resoundre-sound resound

re-sound

[ree-sound]

verb (used with or without object)

to sound again.

Origin of re-sound

First recorded in 1895–1900; re- + sound¹

Can be confusedre-sound resound

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Related Words for resound

reverberate, vibrate, echo, sound, reproduce, ring, boom

Examples from the Web for resound

Historical Examples of resound

The horn will resound in welcome, the drawbridge will be lowered for us.
The Dream
Emile Zola
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
Essays, First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole place, behind the fence, appeared to bristle and resound.
Pandora
Henry James
The quiet room seemed to resound with the long reverberations of her question.
The Reef
Edith Wharton
The musician causes it to resound because he contains a harmonic power.
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Plotinos (Plotinus)

British Dictionary definitions for resound

resound

verb (intr)

to ring or echo with sound; reverberatethe hall resounded with laughter

to make a prolonged echoing noisethe trumpet resounded

(of sounds) to echo or ring

to be widely famoushis achievements resounded throughout India

Word Origin for resound

C14: from Old French resoner, from Latin resonāre to sound again

re-sound

verb

to sound or cause to sound again

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Word Origin and History for resound

late 14c., resownen, from Old French resoner "reverberate" (12c., Modern French résonner), from Latin resonare "sound again, resound, echo," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + sonare "to sound" (see sonata). Spelling influenced from mid-15c. by sound (v.). Related: Resounded; resounding.