Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

resonate

/ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English

Syllables: res-o-nate
IPA: /ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/

8

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.

verb

To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.

verb

To agree or sympathise, not necessarily perfectly, usually with an emotion, an attitude, or an intellectual position.

Example Sentences

"The books on top of the piano resonate when he plays certain notes."
"His words resonated with the crowd."
"Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors."
"“The control of women and babies has been a feature of every repressive regime on the planet,” wrote Margaret Atwood earlier this year, on why her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale is resonating so forcefully in the age of Trump."
"The Letters' account of Dolghurucki's hopeless entanglement in the politics of the imperial accession resonated with her readers, and Vigor's story becomes a minor set piece of Russian histories in the eighteenth century."
"The human propensity to resonate emotionally with others."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *swonh₂éyeti Proto-Italic *swonaō Latin sonō Latin resonōbor. English resonate Borrowed from Latin resonō.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/
British English: /ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/

Inflected Forms

resonates (present, singular) resonating (participle, present) resonated (participle, past) resonated (past)

Derived Forms

resonator

Frequently Paired Words

resonance

Synonyms

come across vibrate

Questions

How do you pronounce resonate?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/.
What does resonate mean?: To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.
Where does resonate come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *swonh₂éyeti Proto-Italic *swonaō Latin sonō Latin resonōbor. English resonate Borrowed from Latin resonō.

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