sounder

¹

[ soun-der ]

noun

1. a person or thing that makes a sound or noise, or sounds sound something.
2. Telegraphy. an instrument for receiving telegraphic impulses that emits the sounds sound from which the message is read.

sounder

²

[ soun-der ]

noun

1. a person or thing that sounds sound depth, as of water.

sounder

¹

/ ˈsaʊndə /

noun

1. an electromagnetic device formerly used in telegraphy to convert electric signals sent over wires into audible sounds

sounder

²

/ ˈsaʊndə /

noun

1. a person or device that measures the depth of water, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of sounder¹

First recorded in 1585–95; sound ¹ + -er ¹

Origin of sounder²

First recorded in 1565–75; sound ³ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

As he summarizes in “China Coup,” “Radical restructuring is needed to put the economy on a sounder footing.”

From Washington Post

If you saw Sounder as a kid, upon its release, what she showed you has likely stayed with you for a lifetime.

From Time

But the Journal suggests that lower-cost producers with sounder finances, like Saudi Arabia, are unlikely to be accomodating.

From The Daily Beast

Perhaps Americans are used to their private detectives being of sounder moral character.

From The Daily Beast

We then got the writer of the Academy Award–nominated screenplay for Sounder, Lonnie Elder, to write a draft.

From The Daily Beast

For some years the subject attracted little attention, until the bullion committee of 1810 propounded a sounder theory.

From Project Gutenberg

As, however, I was still too weak to move, I indulged in another and far sounder sleep.

From Project Gutenberg

It was with a happy heart that Heidi lay down in it that night, and her sleep was sounder than it had been for a whole year past.

From Project Gutenberg

"He can't make them sounder by shutting himself up like a hermit," said the Duchess.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a pity that, to balance our greater amount of fiery energy in the matter of education, we have not a sounder philosophy.

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