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resound en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Received-Pronunciation) audio
• /ɹi-/ (General-American)
• /ɹəˈzaʊnd/ (General-American)
• (General-American) audio
• /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/ (Received-Pronunciation)

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

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
   • The village maids and matrons round / The dismal coronarch resound. 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto III. The Gathering.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XV, page 117:
   • [T]ho' Nations, vvhich conſult / Their Gain, at thy Expence, reſound Applauſe. 1744, [Edward Young], “Night the Seventh. Being the Second Part of The Infidel Reclaimed. Containing the Nature, Proof, and Importance, of Immortality.”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] G[eorge] Hawkins, […]; [a]nd sold by M[ary] Cooper, […], →OCLC, page 10:
   • 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. 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B3, recto:
   • Alleluia thou resoundest, / Salem, Mother ever blest; / Alleluias without ending / Fit yon place of gladsome rest: […] 1852, “Alleluia, dulce carmen”, in Thomas Helmore, editor, Accompanying Harmonies to the Hymnal Noted, London: […] Novello, Ewer and Co., […]; and Masters and Son, […], →OCLC, stanza II, page 234:
2. (transitive) Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
   • Let Vernal Airs thro' trembling Oſiers play, / And Albion’s Cliffs reſound the Rural Lay. 1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. Spring. The First Pastoral, or Damon. […]”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 723:
   • The dripping groves resound with cheerful lays, / And melancholy lowings intervene / Of scattered herds, that in the meadow graze, / Some amid lingering shade, some touched by the sun's rays. a. 1795 (date written), William Wordsworth, “Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain”, in Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; […] (The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth; VII), London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza LVIII, page 34:
   • I fled, and cry'd out Death; / Hell trembl'd at the hideous Name, and ſigh'd / From all her Caves, and back reſounded Death. 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 787–789:
   • Heare, heare, O heare Iarbus plaining prayers, / VVhose hideous ecchoes make the vvelkin hovvle, / And all the vvoods Eliza to reſound: […] 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, Act IV, signature E, verso:
   • The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, […] 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 33, verso:
3. (transitive) 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.
   • The Warrier his deere skarres no more reſounds, / But ſeems to yeeld Chriſt hath the greater wounds, / Wounds willingly endur'd to work his bliſſe, / Who by an ambuſh loſt his Paradiſe. [1633], George Herbert, “The Church Militant”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC, page 185:
   • [B]oth Heav'n and Earth ſhall high extoll / Thy praiſes, with th' innumerable ſound / Of Hymns and ſacred Songs, wherewith thy Throne / Encompaſs'd ſhall reſound thee ever bleſt. 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 146–149:
   • This is the famous Promontory of Sigeum, honored vvith the ſepulcher of Achilles, vvhich Alexander (viſiting it in his Aſian expedition) couered vvith flovvers, and ranne naked about it, as then the cuſtome vvas in funerals: ſacrificing to the ghoſt of his kinſman, vvhom he reputed moſt happie, that had ſuch a trumpet as Homer, to reſound his vertues. 1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 19:
   • The Man, for VViſdom's various arts renovvn'd, / Long exercis'd in vvoes, oh Muſe! reſound. 1725, Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 3:
4. (transitive) To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
   • As far as the immediate area, [the greatest anti-gay influence] has got to be the Church; it's definitely the Mormon Church. You know the current Moral Majority movement seems to be a likening to that. You know many Mormons may not like Reverend Falwell, but they'll certainly resound his sentiments. 1980 December 27, K. F. Huck, quoting David Braley, “The Spirit Of The Beehive”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 8:
5. (intransitive) Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
   • The Cries of Argonauts for Hylas drovvn'd, / VVith vvhoſe repeated Name the Shoars reſound, / Then mourns the madneſs of the Cretan Queen; / Happy for her if Herds had never been. 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Pastoral. Or, Silenus.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 28, lines 65–68:
   • After the celebration of the holy myſteries, Leo [III] ſuddenly placed a precious crovvn on his head, and the dome [of Old St. Peter's Basilica] reſounded vvith the acclamations of the people, "Long life and victory to Charles [i.e., Charlemagne], the moſt pious Auguſtus, crovvned by God the great and pacific emperor of the Romans!" 1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter XLIX, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, pages 135–136:
   • Nevv ſorovves / Strike heauen on the face, that it reſounds / As if it felt with Scotland, and yell'd out / Like Syllable of Dolour. c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 146, column 1:
   • This ſlaughter vvas foretold by many prodigies. […] In their Senate houſe ſtrange noiſes vvere heard: The Theater reſounded vvith hovvlings and yellings: Houſes vvere ſeene under the vvater of Tamis, and the Arme of the ſea beneath it over flovved the bankes as read as bloud to ſee to, […] 1610, William Camden, “Essex”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 448:
   • There is a fair and ſtately mountain, and its name is Mērŏŏ, […] It is adorned with trees and pleaſant ſtreams, and reſoundeth with the delightful ſongs of various birds. 1785, “[Notes to the Gēētā.] An Episode from the Măhābhārăt, Book I. Chap. 15.”, in Charles Wilkins, transl., The Bhăgvăt-gēētā, or Dialogues of Krĕĕshnă and Ărjŏŏn; […], London: […] C. Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 146:
   • At laſt, vvhen all his mourning melodie / He ended had, that both the ſhores reſounded, / Feeling the fit that him forevvarnd to die, / VVith loftie flight aboue the earth he bounded, / And out of ſight to higheſt heauen mounted: […] 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
   • The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.
   • He call'd ſo loud, that all the hollow Deep / Of Hell reſounded. 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 314–315:
6. (intransitive) Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
   • Sternly he pronounc'd / The rigid interdiction, which reſounds / Yet dreadful in mine eare, […] 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 970–972:
   • [W]hen thoſe pittifull outcries he [Proteus] heard, / Through all the ſeas ſo ruefully reſovvnd, / His charett ſvvifte in haſt he thether ſteard, […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30, page 520:
   • [T]hou haſt nothing ſayd, / That ſeems, vvith none of thẽ [them] thou fauor foundeſt, / Or art ingratefull to each gentle mayd, / That none of all their due deſerts reſoundeſt. 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature C2, verso:
   • Famine and peſtilence, her firſt-born ſon, / Attend to finiſh vvhat the ſvvord begun, / And ecchoing praiſes ſuch as fiends might earn, / And folly pays, reſound at your return. 1782, William Cowper, “Heroism”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 360:
   • [S]he owned the motor car, a vehicle adapted to her own requirement; it had a horn which could be worked from the back seat; her weekly journey to church resounded through the village like the Coming of the Lord. 1938 May, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 2, in Scoop: A Novel about Journalists, uniform edition, London: Chapman & Hall, published 1948 (1951 printing), →OCLC, book I (The Stitch Service), page 17:
   • These words, which resounded far through the streets, were accompanied by as many fierce blows, dealt with good effect among those whom the armourer assailed. 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 102:
7. (intransitive) Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
   • Then through the dell his horn resounds, / From vain pursuit to call the hounds. 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto I. The Chase.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza X, page 13:
   • The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
   • Betvveen the upright ſhafts of vvhoſe tall elms / VVe may diſcern the threſher at his taſk. / Thump after thump, reſounds the conſtant flail, / That ſeems to ſvving uncertain, and yet falls / Full on the deſtin'd ear. 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, pages 19–20:
   • Full of iron mines it is in ſundry places, […] to vvhich purpoſe divers brookes in many places are brought to runne in one chanell, and ſundry medovves turned into pooles and vvaters, that they might bee of power ſufficient to driue hammer milles, vvhich beating upon the iron, reſound all over the places adjoyning. 1610, William Camden, “Sussex”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 306:
8. (figuratively, intransitive) Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
9. (figuratively, intransitive) Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.
   • The cauſe of my comming hither is for foure reſpects. Firſt, to ſee the bleſſed face of your Maiestie, vvhoſe vvonderfull fame hath reſounded ouer all Europe, and the Mahometan Countries. 1625, Thomas Coryat, “A Letter of Mr. Thomas Coryat, which Trauailed by Land from Ierusalem to the Court of the Great Mongol, Written to Mr. L. Whitaker. To which are Added Pieces of Two Other, to Entertayne You with a Little Indian-Odcombian Mirth. [From Agra, the Capitall Citie of the Dominion of the Great Mogoll in the Easterne India, the Last of October 1686.]”, in [Samuel] Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 4th book, page 598:
   • O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies, / O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity, / God-gifted organ-voice of England, / Milton, a name to resound for ages; […] 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “[Experiments.] In Quantity. Milton. Alcaics.”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 174:
   • [W]hat reſounds / In Fable or Romance of Uthers Son / Begirt with Britiſh and Armoric Knights; […] 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 579–581:
   • [I]t ſeemes that this place is conuerted into the Paſtoral Arcadia, it is ful of ſhepheards and ſheepfolds, and there is no one part thereof vvherein the name of the beautifull Leandra reſoundeth not: […] 1612, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Relating that which the Goatheard Told to Those that Carried away Don-quixote”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC, part 4, page 583:

Forms

Deriveds

resounding · resounded · resounder

Synonyms

echo · echo

Translations (39)

fi kaikua (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · de erklingen (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · cs ozývat se (to make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly) · enm dynnen (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · ru звуча́ть (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · fi kaikua (of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time) · pt reverberar (especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating sound; to make sounds continuously) · cmn 迴響 /回响 (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · ca ressonar (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · fi kaikua (of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned) · de erschallen (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · fi kaiuttaa (to make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly) · ru раздава́ться (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · la canō (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · pt ressoar (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · de tönen (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · pt ressoar (especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating sound; to make sounds continuously) · it risuonare (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · ru оглаша́ться (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · fi kaikua (especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating sound; to make sounds continuously) · mi ngātoro (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · eo sonori (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · cs zadunět (to make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly) · mi tōiri (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · mi tōiriiri (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · cmn 鳴響 /鸣响 (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · fa خنیدن (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · cs znít (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · ckb زِڕِنگایەوە (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · ja 鳴り響く (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · cs rozeznít se (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · pt reverberar (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · ro răsuna (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · cs dunět (to make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly) · cs rozezvučet se (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · ja 響く (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · cs rezonovat (of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time) · ang āhlēoþrian (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise) · fr résonner (of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise)

resound en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Late Middle English resoun, reson (“echoing or reverberating sound; clangour, din, noise”), from Old French reson, and from its etymon Latin resonus (“echoing, resounding”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonus (“sound; noise; pitch; speech; (figuratively) character, style, tone; tongue, voice”) (from sonō (verb) (see further at etymology 1) + -us (suffix forming nouns)). * (Received Pronunciation) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹɪˈsaʊnd/, /-ˈzaʊnd/ * Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) Audio: (file) * (General American) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹəˈsaʊnd/, /ɹi-/, /-ˈzaʊnd/ * Audio (General American): (file) Audio: (file) * Rhymes: -aʊnd * Hyphenation: re‧sound

Meanings

1. (countable) An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.
   • Presently, out of the turmoil, the fighting of horses, the resound of blows, the murky cloud of dust and sand, he crawled, in time to see the Corinthian and Byzantine go on down the course after Ben-Hur, who had not been an instant delayed. 1880 November 12, Lew[is] Wallace, chapter XIV, in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, book fifth, pages 375–376:
2. (uncountable) The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.
   • And you ô trees (if any life there lies / In trees) now though your porous barkes receave / The straunge resounde of these my causeful cries: […] c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
   • Since Virtuous Actions have their own Trumpets, and without any noiſe from thy ſelf will have their reſound abroad; buſy not thy beſt Member in the Encomium of thy ſelf. c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “Sect[ion] XXXIV”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC, part I, page 40:

Forms

Translations (1)

fi kaiunta (echoing or reverberating sound)

resound en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Received-Pronunciation) audio
• /ˌɹiˈsaʊnd/ (General-American)
• (General-American) audio
• /ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To echo or repeat (a sound).
   • Any new alarms, from any patient, will resound the alarm tone. 1992, Health Devices, volume 21, Philadelphia, Pa.: Emergency Care Research Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 117, column 2:
2. (intransitive) To sound again.

Forms

Translations (13)

txb käln- (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · pt ressoar (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · ang ābrastlian (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · nl weerklinken (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · el αντιλαλώ (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · fr résonner (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · it risuonare (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · bg ехтя (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · sa स्तनति (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · fi kaikua (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · vi vang vọng (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · nl weerschalken (to echo or repeat (a sound)) · bg еча (to echo or repeat (a sound))