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Synonyms for resound


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ri-zound
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈzaʊnd



Définition of resound

Origin :
  • 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.
  • verb resonate
Example sentences :
  • The horn will resound in welcome, the drawbridge will be lowered for us.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The whole place, behind the fence, appeared to bristle and resound.
  • Extract from : « Pandora » by Henry James
  • The quiet room seemed to resound with the long reverberations of her question.
  • Extract from : « The Reef » by Edith Wharton
  • The musician causes it to resound because he contains a harmonic power.
  • Extract from : « Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 » by Plotinos (Plotinus)
  • The willows, on mild April days, resound with the roar of insect traffic.
  • Extract from : « In the Open » by Stanton Davis Kirkham
  • The sound of distant bagpipes seemed to resound dully in his ears.
  • Extract from : « The Wee Scotch Piper » by Madeline Brandeis
  • As a rule, raps seem to resound on the top of the table; but it is not always so.
  • Extract from : « Metapsychical Phenomena » by J. Maxwell
  • Such clamor was of voices / that all the mountain did resound.
  • Extract from : « The Nibelungenlied » by Unknown
  • Let universal Paris, universal France, as with the throat of the whirlwind, resound: To arms!
  • Extract from : « Orphans of the Storm » by Henry MacMahon

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