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resound

[ri-zound]
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verb (used without object)
  1. to echo or ring with sound, as a place.
  2. to make an echoing sound, or sound loudly, as a metallic object: A gong resounded.
  3. to ring or be echoed, as sounds.
  4. to be celebrated or notably important: His name resounds in the pages of history.
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verb (used with object)
  1. to reecho (a sound).
  2. to give forth or utter loudly.
  3. to proclaim loudly (praise, disapproval, etc.).
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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)
  1. to sound again.
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Origin of re-sound

First recorded in 1895–1900; re- + sound1
Can be confusedre-sound resound
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Related Words

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

Examples from the Web for resound

Historical Examples

  • 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.

British Dictionary definitions for resound

resound

verb (intr)
  1. to ring or echo with sound; reverberatethe hall resounded with laughter
  2. to make a prolonged echoing noisethe trumpet resounded
  3. (of sounds) to echo or ring
  4. to be widely famoushis achievements resounded throughout India
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Word Origin

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

re-sound

verb
  1. to sound or cause to sound again
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Word Origin and History for resound

v.

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.

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