aftersound
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sound that persists or remains audible after its source has ceased to produce it; the perception of such a sound.
noun
A weaker sound that immediately follows a more salient one, such as the second, less prominent vowel sound in a falling diphthong.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "[…] the strings of an instrument, […] being strucken with the hand, do verberate the ayre in its first sound, and are reverberated by the ayre to an after-sound."
- "He fired the Winchester twice again, into the distance, then lowered it, the ringing aftersound of the gunfire in his ears."
- "Edward was awakened that night by a loud clattering noise which left an after-sound of high ringing."
- "And the aftersound of the music played in the light-filled drawing room would grow closer to pure silence each year, until time ended."
- "1881, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, “The simple sounds of all the living Slavonic languages compared with those of the principal Neo-Latin and Germano-Scandinavian Tongues,” Transactions of the Philological Society, 1880-1881, p. 377, In English I cannot hear the sound of Italian o chiuso, but only that of (o 5) followed by an aftersound, as in home, or without this aftersound, as in more."
- "They [gu and qu] were not groups formed of a guttural stop and the semi-vowel v, but guttural stops with a labial aftersound; the latter receiving a very much weaker articulation than the semi-vowel v."
Etymology
From after- + sound.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: after
Usage
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Frequently Paired Words
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