resound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/
ipa: /ɹəˈzaʊnd/
ipa: /ɹi-/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: resounds
form: resounding
form: resounded
form: resounded
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
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B3, recto:
text: [T]ho' Nations, vvhich conſult / Their Gain, at thy Expence, reſound Applauſe.
ref: 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. Hawkins, […], →OCLC, page 10:
text: The village maids and matrons round / The dismal coronarch resound.
ref: 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:
text: Alleluia thou resoundest, / Salem, Mother ever blest; / Alleluias without ending / Fit yon place of gladsome rest: […]
ref: 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:
glosses: To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
examples: text: The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, […]
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 33, verso:
text: Heare, heare, O heare Iarbus plaining prayers, / VVhose hideous ecchoes make the vvelkin hovvle, / And all the vvoods Eliza to reſound: […]
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Let Vernal Airs thro' trembling Oſiers play, / And Albion’s Cliffs reſound the Rural Lay.
ref: 1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. Spring. The First Pastoral, or Damon. […]”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 723:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: [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:
text: [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.
ref: 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:
text: The Man, for VViſdom's various arts renovvn'd, / Long exercis'd in vvoes, oh Muſe! reſound.
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1980 December 27, K. F. Huck, quoting David Braley, “The Spirit Of The Beehive”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 8:
synonyms: echo
glosses: To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
examples: text: The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.
text: 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: […]
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: Nevv ſorovves / Strike heauen on the face, that it reſounds / As if it felt with Scotland, and yell'd out / Like Syllable of Dolour.
ref: 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:
text: 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, […]
ref: 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:
text: He call'd ſo loud, that all the hollow Deep / Of Hell reſounded.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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!"
ref: 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:
glosses: Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
examples: text: [W]hen thoſe pittifull outcries he [Proteus] heard, / Through all the ſeas ſo ruefully reſovvnd, / His charett ſvvifte in haſt he thether ſteard, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30, page 520:
text: [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.
ref: 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature C2, verso:
text: Sternly he pronounc'd / The rigid interdiction, which reſounds / Yet dreadful in mine eare, […]
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Heroism”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 360:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: [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.
ref: 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:
synonyms: echo
glosses: Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
examples: text: The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, pages 19–20:
text: Then through the dell his horn resounds, / From vain pursuit to call the hounds.
ref: 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:
glosses: Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
glosses: Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
examples: text: [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: […]
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: [W]hat reſounds / In Fable or Romance of Uthers Son / Begirt with Britiſh and Armoric Knights; […]
ref: 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:
text: 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; […]
ref: 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “[Experiments.] In Quantity. Milton. Alcaics.”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 174:
glosses: Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.
Derived terms: word: resounded
word: resounding