Definitions for resound

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resound re·sound

Spelling: [ri-zound]

IPA: /rɪˈzaʊnd/

Resound is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in resound (denorsu).

Definitions for resound

verb (used with object)

1. to reecho (a sound).
2. to give forth or utter loudly.
3. to proclaim loudly (praise, disapproval, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to echo or ring with sound, as a place.
2. to make an echoing sound, or sound loudly, as a metallic object:
3. to ring or be echoed, as sounds.
4. to be celebrated or notably important:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to sound again.

Origin of resound

1350-1400; Middle English resounen Middle French resoner Latin resonāre, equivalent to re- re- + sonāre to sound¹

Examples for resound

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Such clamor was of voices / that all the mountain did resound.

The musician causes it to resound because he contains a harmonic power.

The whole place, behind the fence, appeared to bristle and resound.

Let universal Paris, universal France, as with the throat of the whirlwind, resound: To arms!

The sound of distant bagpipes seemed to resound dully in his ears.

The willows, on mild April days, resound with the roar of insect traffic.

The quiet room seemed to resound with the long reverberations of her question.

As a rule, raps seem to resound on the top of the table; but it is not always so.

The horn will resound in welcome, the drawbridge will be lowered for us.