resound
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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
Base: sound
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: resounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: resounded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: resounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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: […]
gloss: Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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: […]
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.
Let Vernal Airs thro' trembling Oſiers play, / And Albion’s Cliffs reſound the Rural Lay.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
[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.
The Man, for VViſdom's various arts renovvn'd, / Long exercis'd in vvoes, oh Muſe! reſound.
gloss: To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.
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: […]
Nevv ſorovves / Strike heauen on the face, that it reſounds / As if it felt with Scotland, and yell'd out / Like Syllable of Dolour.
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, […]
He call'd ſo loud, that all the hollow Deep / Of Hell reſounded.
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.
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.
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!"
gloss: Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [W]hen thoſe pittifull outcries he [Proteus] heard, / Through all the ſeas ſo ruefully reſovvnd, / His charett ſvvifte in haſt he thether ſteard, […]
[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.
Sternly he pronounc'd / The rigid interdiction, which reſounds / Yet dreadful in mine eare, […]
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.
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.
[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.
gloss: Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
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.
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.
Then through the dell his horn resounds, / From vain pursuit to call the hounds.
gloss: Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
gloss: Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: [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: […]
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.
[W]hat reſounds / In Fable or Romance of Uthers Son / Begirt with Britiſh and Armoric Knights; […]
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; […]
gloss: An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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: […]
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.
Derived words: resounded
resounder
resounding
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