resound
resound is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 7 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
- 2.To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame . . . resounds back to them again." South.
- 3.To be mentioned much and loudly. Milton.
- 4.To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.
- 5.To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate. Albion's cliffs resound the rurPope.
- 6.To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of. The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound. Pope.
- 7.Return of sound; echo. Beaumont.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
- reverberate
- sound
- to echo
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accent
- acoustics
- and
- aspirate
- audibility
- audible
- breathing
- cadence
- diacoustics
- diaphonics
- distinct
- emit
- give
- intonation
- make
- noise
- out
- phonetic
- phonetics
- phonetism
- phonic
- phonics
- phonocamptic
- phonography
- phonology
- produce
- resonance
- resonant
- rough
- soniferous
- sonorific
- sonorous
- sound
- sounding
- stertorous
- strain
- thousand
- tone
- twang
- voice
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is resound.
- What is to be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song called?
- What is to be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame . . . resounds back to them again." South called?
- What is to be mentioned much and loudly. Milton called?
- What is to echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise called?
- What is to throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate. Albion's cliffs resound the rurPope called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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