sound
Part of speech: adj
adv
intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
law
lifestyle
linguistics
logic
mathematics
music
philosophy
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundaz (“healthy”), merged with synonymous Old English ġesund, from Proto-West Germanic *gasund.
Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Possibly related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.
Inflected forms:
form: sounder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: soundest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: soune
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sownd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sowne
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more sound
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sound
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: soune
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sownd
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sowne
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: soune
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sownd
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sowne
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soune
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sownd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sowne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sounded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: soune
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sownd
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sowne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Healthy.
pos: adj
examples: He was safe and sound.
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
on the 29th of September 1840, in consideration that the plaintiff, at the request of the defendant, had bought of the defendant a certain horse, at a certain price, to wit, 30l., the defendant promised plaintiff that the horse did not exceed five years off, and that it was sound in wind and limb, perfect in vision, and free from vice; […]
gloss: Complete, solid, or secure.
pos: adj
examples: Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, / And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound.
Refurbishing Okehampton station, kept basically sound under ownership by Devon Council, remains a work in progress and scheduled for completion next spring.
gloss: Having the property of soundness.
pos: adj
examples: With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
gloss: Good; acceptable; decent.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
examples: How are you? —I'm sound.
That's a sound track you're playing.
See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him.
gloss: Quiet and deep.
pos: adj
examples: Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.
Her sleep was sound.
a sound night’s sleep
gloss: Heavy; laid on with force.
pos: adj
examples: a sound beating
gloss: Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
pos: adj
examples: a sound title to land
gloss: Soundly.
pos: adv
examples: So ſound he ſlept, that nought mought him awake.
gloss: Yes; used to show agreement or understanding.
pos: intj
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
examples: I found my jacket. — Sound.
gloss: A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.  Nobody made a sound.
The warlike sound / Of trumpets loud and clarions.
Through all the Worlds are sounds, the noises of moving, and the echoes of voices and song; but upon the River is no sound ever heard, for there all echoes die.
gloss: A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.[…]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
gloss: A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He looks like he's got it, maybe. Listen to those kids!/There's no maybe about it. That's it, that's the sound.
gloss: Noise without meaning; empty noise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For let us conſider this Prepoſition as to its meaning, (for it is the ſence, and not ſound, that is and muſt be the Principle or common Notion) […]
gloss: Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Stay within the sound of my voice.
gloss: A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To produce a sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When the horn sounds, take cover.
gloss: To convey an impression by one's sound.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
examples: He sounded good when we last spoke.
That story sounds like a pack of lies!
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!
gloss: To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For from you ſounded out the worde of the Lord, not in Macedonia & in Achaia onely: but your faith alſo which is towarde God, ſpred abroade in all quarters, that we nede not to ſpeake any thing.
gloss: To resound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
examples: In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction.
[…]there can be no doubt that claims brought pursuant to § 1983 sound in tort.
gloss: To cause to produce a sound.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sound the alarm!
He sounds the instrument.
If a train enters the forward section before its description has been transmitted, a "not described" lamp is illuminated on the transmitter, an alarm buzzer is sounded, and the lamp remains alight until a description has been transmitted.
gloss: To pronounce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.
Synonyms: noise
sound
echo
reecho
resonate
Antonyms: quiet
silence
stillness
Related words: audible
listen
make sound
utter
Derived words: of sound mind
safe and sound
sound as a barrel
sound as a bell
sound as a dollar
sound as a pound
sound as a roach
soundly
soundness
aftersound
Bakersfield sound
Bristol sound
by the sound of it
Canterbury sound
empty vessels make the most sound
foresound
found sound
heart sound
high lonesome sound
hypersound
I can't hear you over the sound of
infrasound
instantaneous sound pressure
Jersey sound
like the sound of one's own voice
Liverpool sound
Mersey sound
microsound
Minneapolis sound
missound
Nashville sound
New Jersey sound
nonsound
outsound
re-sound
San Francisco sound
second sound
sh sound
somatosound
soundable
soundage
sound-alike
soundalike
sound alphabet
sound and fury
sound and light
sound-and-light show
sound art
sound artist
soundbank
soundbar
sound barrier
sound bath
sound bite
soundbite
sound blimp
soundboard
sound booth
sound bow
sound bowl
sound box
sound camera
sound card
sound change
soundcheck
soundclash
sound clip
sound cut
sound design
sound designer
sounded
sound effect
sound energy
sound engineer
sound engineering
sounder
soundex
Soundex
sound film
soundfont
soundful
soundgarden
sound head
sound hole
soundie
sounding stone
sound isolation
sound law
soundless
soundlike
sound like
soundlore
sound machine
sound man
soundman
sound mirror
sound money
sound off
soundome
sound-on-film
sound on the goose
sound out
soundpainting
soundperson
sound plural
sound poetry
sound pollution
sound post
sound pressure
sound projection
soundproof
sound-proof
sound recording
sound reproduction
soundscape
soundscore
soundset
sound shadow
sound shift
sound spectrum
sound stage
soundstage
sound structure
sound-symbolic
sound symbolism
sound system
soundtable
sound table
sound technician
sound the alarm
sound the drum
sound therapy
sound track
soundtrack
sound truck
soundwalk
sound wall
soundward
soundwave
sound wave
soundwise
soundwoman
soundwork
soundworld
soundy
speech sound
speed of sound
supersound
surround-sound
surround sound
third heart sound
third sound
ultrasound
unsound
voiced sound
wall of sound
word sound
sounding board
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