resound

Verb (1)

resound (third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded)

1. (transitive) To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
   • VVith noyſe vvhereof the quyre of Byrds reſounded / their anthemes ſvveet devized of loues prayſe, / that all the vvoods theyr ecchoes back rebounded, / as if they knevv the meaning of their layes.1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B3, recto
   • [T]ho' Nations, vvhich conſult / Their Gain, at thy Expence, reſound Applauſe.1744, [Edward Young], “Night the Seventh. Being the Second Part of The Infidel Reclaimed. Containing the Nature, Proof, and Importance, of Immortality.”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life...
2. (transitive) Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
   • The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, […]1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 33, verso
   • Heare, heare, O heare Iarbus plaining prayers, / VVhose hideous ecchoes make the vvelkin hovvle, / And all the vvoods Eliza to reſound: […]1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, Act IV, signature E, verso
3. (transitive) 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.
   • This is the famous Promontory of Sigeum, honored vvith the ſepulcher of Achilles, vvhich Alexander (viſiting it in his Aſian expedition) couered vvith flovvers, and ranne naked about it, as then the cuſtome vvas in funerals: ſacrificing to the ghoſt of his kinſman, vvhom he reputed moſt happie...1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 19
   • The Warrier his deere skarres no more reſounds, / But ſeems to yeeld Chriſt hath the greater wounds, / Wounds willingly endur'd to work his bliſſe, / Who by an ambuſh loſt his Paradiſe.[1633], George Herbert, “The Church Militant”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are...
4. (transitive) To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
   • As far as the immediate area, [the greatest anti-gay influence] has got to be the Church; it's definitely the Mormon Church. You know the current Moral Majority movement seems to be a likening to that. You know many Mormons may not like Reverend Falwell, but they'll certainly resound his sentiments.1980 December 27, K. F. Huck, quoting David Braley, “The Spirit Of The Beehive”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 8

   Synonyms:

   echo

5. (intransitive) Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
   • The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.
   • At laſt, vvhen all his mourning melodie / He ended had, that both the ſhores reſounded, / Feeling the fit that him forevvarnd to die, / VVith loftie flight aboue the earth he bounded, / And out of ſight to higheſt heauen mounted: […]1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC
6. (intransitive) Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
   • [W]hen thoſe pittifull outcries he [Proteus] heard, / Through all the ſeas ſo ruefully reſovvnd, / His charett ſvvifte in haſt he thether ſteard, […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30, page 520
   • [T]hou haſt nothing ſayd, / That ſeems, vvith none of thẽ [them] thou fauor foundeſt, / Or art ingratefull to each gentle mayd, / That none of all their due deſerts reſoundeſt.1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature C2, verso

   Synonyms:

   echo

7. (intransitive) 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.
   • Full of iron mines it is in ſundry places, […] to vvhich purpoſe divers brookes in many places are brought to runne in one chanell, and ſundry medovves turned into pooles and vvaters, that they might bee of power ſufficient to driue hammer milles, vvhich beating upon the iron, reſound all over the...1610, William Camden, “Sussex”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s...
8. (figuratively, intransitive) Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
9. (figuratively, intransitive) Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.
   • [I]t ſeemes that this place is conuerted into the Paſtoral Arcadia, it is ful of ſhepheards and ſheepfolds, and there is no one part thereof vvherein the name of the beautifull Leandra reſoundeth not: […]1612, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Relating that which the Goatheard Told to Those that Carried away Don-quixote”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant...
   • The cauſe of my comming hither is for foure reſpects. Firſt, to ſee the bleſſed face of your Maiestie, vvhoſe vvonderfull fame hath reſounded ouer all Europe, and the Mahometan Countries.1625, Thomas Coryat, “A Letter of Mr. Thomas Coryat, which Trauailed by Land from Ierusalem to the Court of the Great Mongol, Written to Mr. L. Whitaker. To which are Added Pieces of Two Other, to...

Noun

resound (countable and uncountable, plural resounds)

1. (countable) An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.
   • Presently, out of the turmoil, the fighting of horses, the resound of blows, the murky cloud of dust and sand, he crawled, in time to see the Corinthian and Byzantine go on down the course after Ben-Hur, who had not been an instant delayed.1880 November 12, Lew[is] Wallace, chapter XIV, in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, book fifth, pages 375–376
2. (uncountable) The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.
   • And you ô trees (if any life there lies / In trees) now though your porous barkes receave / The straunge resounde of these my causeful cries: […]c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New...
   • Since Virtuous Actions have their own Trumpets, and without any noiſe from thy ſelf will have their reſound abroad; buſy not thy beſt Member in the Encomium of thy ſelf.c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “Sect[ion] XXXIV”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius...

Verb (2)

UK/ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd/US/ˌɹiˈsaʊnd/

resound (third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded)

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.