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Definition of Sonorous
1. Adjective. Full and loud and deep. "A herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
Definition of Sonorous
1. a. Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
Definition of Sonorous
1. Adjective. Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound. ¹
2. Adjective. Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse. ¹
3. Adjective. Wordy or grandiloquent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sonorous
1. characterized by a full and loud sound [adj]
Medical Definition of Sonorous
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1. Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
2. Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.
3. Yielding sound; characterised by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.
4. Impressive in sound; high-sounding. "The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression." (Addison) "There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude." (E. Everett)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sonorous
Literary usage of Sonorous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"Soft bodies, as wool, cotton, and down, cannot produce any sound ; and those
which are of the harder class, as rocks and stones, are not in general sonorous ..."
2. The Forces of Nature: A Popular Introduction to the Study of Physical Phenomena by Amédée Guillemin (1873)
"Thus the air itself enters into vibration under the impulse of the movements of
the particles of the sonorous bodies, and it undergoes successive ..."
3. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"Soft bodies, as wool, cotton, and down, cannot produce any sound ; and those
which are of the harder class, as rocks and stones, are not in general sonorous ..."
4. Principles of human physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1860)
"sonorous vibrations of solid bodies are communicated with greater intensity to other
... sonorous vibrations are communicated from air to water with great ..."
5. An Old English grammar by Eduard Sievers (1903)
"A. sonorous CONSONANTS 1. THE SEMIVOWELS W 171. w, here substituted for the Runic
character wyn, the usual symbol employed in the manuscripts, ..."
6. The Forces of Nature: A Popular Introduction to the Study of Physical Phenomena by Amédée Guillemin (1873)
"Propagation of the sonorous vibrations in a cylindrical and unlimited gaseous
column. Fio. 131.—Curve representing a sound wave. like the waves along the ..."
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