sounder
/ˈsaʊndɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
comparative form of sound: more sound
noun
An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
noun
A fishfinder.
Example Sentences
- "The Northern Division Traffic Manager has said that there is no present intention of terminating the service, but the hopes previously entertained of expanding it cannot be entertained until it is operating on a sounder economic basis."
- "a telephone with an electronic sounder"
- "It was not only that there were wild boars in it, whose sounders would at this season be furiously rooting about, nor that one of the surviving wolves might be slinking behind any tree, with pale eyes and slavering chops."
- "Members of a sounder share a home range, and often move around their home range in a group (feral pigs, Gabor et al.,1999)."
- "Each “sounder," or group , of wild swine will be joined by a dominant boar when there are females in estrus."
Etymology
From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ġesundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound + -er (comparative suffix).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsaʊndɚ/