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reboant

reboant adjective: that reverberates or resounds loudly.

Adjective

reboant (comparative more reboant, superlative most reboant)

  1. (poetic) That reverberates or resounds loudly.
    • 19th C, Alfred Tennyson, Supposed Confessions, The Collected Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1994, page 15,
      What if / Thou pleadest still, and seest me drive / Through utter dark a full-sail'd skiff, / Unpiloted i' the echoing dance / Of reboant whirlwinds, stooping low / Unto the death, not sunk!
    • […]this scrolled silver rim of wash striking the shore first in the distance, then spreading all along the curve of the beach, its growing thunder and commotion now joined to the diminishing thunder of the train, and now breaking reboant on our beach[…]1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 37

Forms of reboant

comparativemore reboant
superlativemost reboant

Origin of reboant

From Latin reboō (“bellow, resound”).

Questions about reboant

What does reboant mean?
Reboant means that reverberates or resounds loudly.
What part of speech is reboant?
Reboant is an adjective.

Words near reboant in the dictionary

  1. rebluff
  2. rebluffs
  3. rebluing
  4. Rebman
  5. Rebmans
  6. reboant
  7. reboantic
  8. reboants
  9. reboard
  10. reboarded
  11. reboarder

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