resound

Etymology 1

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

verb

1. (transitive)
   1. To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
      Alleluia thou resoundest, / Salem, Mother ever blest; / Alleluias without ending / Fit yon place of gladsome rest: […] 1852, “Alleluia, dulce carmen”, in Thomas Helmore, editor, Accompanying Harmonies to the Hymnal Noted, London: […] Novello, Ewer and Co.,[…]; and Masters and Son,[…], →OCLC, stanza II, page 234
   2. Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
   3. 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.
2. (intransitive)
   1. Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
      The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.
      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. 1785, “[Notes to the Gēētā.] An Episode from the Măhābhārăt, Book I. Chap. 15.”, in Charles Wilkins, transl., The Bhăgvăt-gēētā, or Dialogues of Krĕĕshnă and Ărjŏŏn;[…], London: […] C. Nourse,[…], →OCLC, page 146
   2. Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
   3. Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
      The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
   4. (figurative)
      1. Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
      2. Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.

Etymology 2

From Late Middle English resoun, reson (“echoing or reverberating sound; clangour, din, noise”), from Old French reson, and from its etymon Latin resonus (“echoing, resounding”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonus (“sound; noise; pitch; speech; (figuratively) character, style, tone; tongue, voice”) (from sonō (verb) (see further at etymology 1) + -us (suffix forming nouns)). * (Received Pronunciation) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹɪˈsaʊnd/, /-ˈzaʊnd/ * Audio (RP) (file) (file) * (General American) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹəˈsaʊnd/, /ɹi-/, /-ˈzaʊnd/ * Audio (GA) (file) (file) * Rhymes: -aʊnd * Hyphenation: re‧sound

noun

1. (countable) An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.
2. (uncountable) The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.

Etymology 3

From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”).

verb

1. (transitive) To echo or repeat (a sound).
   Any new alarms, from any patient, will resound the alarm tone. 1992, Health Devices, volume 21, Philadelphia, Pa.: Emergency Care Research Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 117, column 2
2. (intransitive) To sound again.