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resonate

Syllables: res·o·nateUK/ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/

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Australia/ˈɹez.əˌnæɪt/

resonate verb: to vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.

Verb

resonate (third-person singular simple present resonates, present participle resonating, simple past and past participle resonated)

  1. To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.
    • The books on top of the piano resonate when he plays certain notes.
  2. (figuratively) To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.
    • His words resonated with the crowd.
    • Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors.2013, Darin Jewell, Conrad Jones, Publish and Promote Your Ebook in a Day, page 140
  3. (figuratively) To agree or sympathise, not necessarily perfectly, usually with an emotion, an attitude, or an intellectual position.
    • The human propensity to resonate emotionally with others.
    • I think the tone of concern, both within the outer and the inner circle here,. . . is obviously something that I resonate with. We're dealing with problems in decision-making and uncertainty...1976 Professor Rosenblith: U.S. DEPARTMENT of Health, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE DHEW Publication No. (NIH) 76-1138 Proceedings of Conferences

resonate meaning in Kannada, Indonesian and Vietnamese

resonate in Kannada

ಅನುರಣಿಸು, ಪ್ರತಿಧ್ವನಿಸು, ಅನುರಣನವನ್ನುಂಟು ಮಾಡು

resonate in Indonesian

to have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support
melekat

resonate in Vietnamese

to vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration
cộng hưởng

Examples of resonate in a sentence

  • Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.
  • I feel like most people resonate with at least one quality from each of the Dokis to a degree.
  • The merch is proof of how much the sentiment resonates with people.

All 32 example sentences with resonate

Forms of resonate

third-person singular presentresonates
present participleresonating
past participleresonated
pastresonated

Past tense of resonate: resonated

Origin of resonate

Borrowed from Latin resonō.

Words formed from resonate

Questions about resonate

What does resonate mean?
Resonate means to vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.
What is resonate in Kannada?
Resonate in Kannada is ಅನುರಣಿಸು, ಪ್ರತಿಧ್ವನಿಸು, ಅನುರಣನವನ್ನುಂಟು ಮಾಡು. See Resonate meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is resonate?
Resonate is a verb.
How do you pronounce resonate?
Resonate is pronounced /ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of resonate?
The past tense of resonate is resonated.

Words near resonate in the dictionary

  1. resonancies
  2. resonancy
  3. resonant
  4. resonantly
  5. resonants
  6. resonate
  7. resonated
  8. resonates
  9. resonating
  10. resonating chamber
  11. resonating chambers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: resonate (page history and authors); resonate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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