resound

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   ring or echo with sound

   the hall resounded with laughter

2. 2
   verb

   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.

3. 3
   verb

   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, […]

4. 4
   verb

   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, that had ſuch a trumpet as Homer, to reſound his vertues.

5. 5
   verb

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.

   The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.

7. 7
   verb

   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, […]

8. 8
   verb

   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.

Etymology

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 repeate…