Definitions for sonorous

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sonorous so·no·rous

Spelling: [suh-nawr-uh s, -nohr-, Sonorous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in sonorous (nooorssu).

Definitions for sonorous

adjective

1. giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place:
2. loud, deep, or resonant, as a sound.
3. rich and full in sound, as language or verse.
4. high-flown; grandiloquent:

Origin of sonorous

1605-15; Latin sonōrus noisy, sounding, equivalent to sonōr-, stem of sonor sound (son(āre) to sound¹ + -or

Examples for sonorous

Her perfect health, and all her love of life, rang out in this sonorous gaiety.

At the end, the sonorous Welles concludes with a little talk about Halloween.

The young man's voice came with a sonorous firmness that was new to it.

Franklin Roosevelt's addresses in 1933 and 1937 remain alive, as does the sonorous rhetoric of John F. Kennedy's address in 1961.

His voice is sweet and sonorous, his eyes are bright with intellect.

The ancient cities, the dreamy harbors, the sonorous street names that no longer existed.

The solemnity of the sonorous exhortation was water in her ears.

In my youth, you heard, side-by-side, the church bells ringing and the beautiful, sonorous call to prayer of the muezzin.

In the sonorous emptiness of the place, there ensued a heated discussion.

There was Radim Palouš, the sonorous philosophical godfather of Kampademia.