# resound

> English word · Verb · IPA /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/ · frequency rank #69,390

## Definitions
1. To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
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.
4. To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
5. Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
6. Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
7. Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
8. Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
9. Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.

## 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 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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/resound