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Definition of Resounding
1. Adjective. Characterized by resonance. "Hear the rolling thunder"
Similar to: Reverberant
Derivative terms: Resonance, Resonance, Resonance, Resound, Resound, Reverberate
Definition of Resounding
1. Noun. The action of the verb ''to resound'' ¹
2. Adjective. Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant ¹
3. Adjective. That causes reverberation ¹
4. Adjective. (context: by extension) emphatic, celebrated ¹
5. Verb. (present participle of resound) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Resounding
1. resound [v] - See also: resound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resounding
Literary usage of Resounding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"The entire surface of the spacious canal was foaming with the dash of oars, and
resounding with the exuberant gaiety of the Venetians ; while the tapestried ..."
2. Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter (1873)
"There ia no sound more gentle, more slumberous, than the distant roll of these
billows, — " The rolling sea resounding soft," as Spenser has it. ..."
3. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"... oh, grant us, Godhead Ever-blessed, f Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in union,
Whose praises be through earth's most distant regions Ever resounding ! ..."
4. The Christian Herald by John Edwards Caldwell (1817)
"hours shaded by the snowy wings of departing or of returning commerce—the hum of
industry resounding in the streets—and when it was asked what nation had ..."
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