resound
/ɹəˈzaʊnd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.
Transitive verb
verb
Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "VVith noyſe vvhereof the quyre of Byrds reſounded / their anthemes ſvveet devized of loues prayſe, / that all the vvoods theyr ecchoes back rebounded, / as if they knevv the meaning of their layes."
- "[T]ho' Nations, vvhich conſult / Their Gain, at thy Expence, reſound Applauſe."
- "The village maids and matrons round / The dismal coronarch resound."
- "Alleluia thou resoundest, / Salem, Mother ever blest; / Alleluias without ending / Fit yon place of gladsome rest: […]"
- "The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, […]"
- "Heare, heare, O heare Iarbus plaining prayers, / VVhose hideous ecchoes make the vvelkin hovvle, / And all the vvoods Eliza to reſound: […]"
Etymology
From both of the following: * From Late Middle English resounen (“to return with an echo, resound; to make a sound, to sound; of speech or writing: to announce a theme”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman resoner, resouner [and other forms], Middle French resoner, and Old French resoner (“to make a (deep or echoing) sound; of sounds: to echo; to ring; of one’s name or actions: to be frequently recounted; of a place: to re-echo or ring with sound”) (modern French résonner), from Latin resonāre, the present active infinitive of resonō (“to ring or sound again, re-echo, resound; to call repeatedly; to give back the sound of (something), re-echo or resound (something)”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonō (“to make a noise, resound, sound; to sound (something); to speak or utter (something); to call, cry out; to celebrate; to extol, praise; to sing”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound”)). * From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”). Cognates * Catalan ressonar * Italian resonare (obsolete), risonare * Old Occitan resonar * Portuguese ressoar, ressonar, resonar (obsolete) * Spanish resonar
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹəˈzaʊnd/
- British English: /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/