ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Resound

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Resound is a verb meaning To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.

Meaning

To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.

Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
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.

The village maids and matrons round / The dismal coronarch resound.

[T]ho' Nations, vvhich conſult / Their Gain, at thy Expence, reſound Applauſe.

The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, […]

Let Vernal Airs thro' trembling Oſiers play, / And Albion’s Cliffs reſound the Rural Lay.

Depending on context, synonyms include echo, ring, noise, reverberate.

Related dictionary entries include reverberate, echo, noise, ring, resonate, peal.

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