Definition of
Sound
- (noun, attribute) the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
the beautiful sound of music - (noun, cognition) the subjective sensation of hearing something
- (noun, phenomenon) mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
- (noun, event) the sudden occurrence of an audible event
- (noun, communication) the audible part of a transmitted signal
- (noun, communication) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- (noun, object) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
- (noun, object) a large ocean inlet or deep bay
- (verb, perception) appear in a certain way
- (verb, perception) make a certain noise or sound
The gun went `bang' - (verb, perception) give off a certain sound or sounds
- (verb, perception) announce by means of a sound
- (verb, communication) utter with vibrating vocal chords
- (verb, perception) cause to sound
sound a certain note - (verb, change) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line
- (adj, all) financially secure and safe
a sound economy - (adj, all) exercising or showing good judgment
a healthy fear of rattlesnakes
the healthy attitude of French laws
healthy relations between labor and management
an intelligent solution
a sound approach to the problem
sound advice
no sound explanation for his decision - (adj, all) in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay
the wall is sound
a sound foundation - (adj, all) in excellent physical condition
I still have one good leg
a sound mind in a sound body - (adj, all) logically valid
- (adj, all) having legal efficacy or force
- (adj, all) free from moral defect
- (adj, all) (of sleep) deep and complete
fell into a profound sleep
a sound sleeper
deep wakeless sleep - (adj, all) thorough
- (noun, attribute) the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
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Synonyms of Sound
audio, auditory sensation, effectual, fathom, go, good, healthy, heavy, intelligent, legal, level-headed, levelheaded, phone, profound, reasoned, speech sound, strait, vocalise, vocalize, voice, wakeless, well-grounded
Alternate forms of Sound
Derivations: sonant, sound, sounder, sounding, soundness
Hyponyms: babble, bang, beat, beep, bell, birr, blare, bleep, blow, bombilate, bombilation, bombinate, bombination, bong, boom, boom out, bubble, burble, buzz, cackel, chatter, chime, chink, chirk, chirp, chirrup, chorus, chug, clang, clangor, clangour, clank, claxon, click, click-clack, clink, clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clump, clumping, clunk, clunking, consonant, crack, crash, cry, din, ding, dissonance, dissonate, drip, dripping, drone, drum, drum roll, drumbeat, dub, echo, euphony, footfall, footstep, gargle, glide, glug, gong, grumble, guggle, gurgle, honk, hum, jangle, jingle, knell, knock, knocking, lap, make noise, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, music, mussitation, mutter, muttering, narrow, noise, noisiness, orinasal, orinasal phone, paradiddle, pat, patter, peal, pealing, phoneme, pierce, ping, pink, pitter-patter, play, plunk, pop, popping, prepare, pure tone, purr, quack, quaver, racket, racketiness, rap, rataplan, rattle, resonate, resound, reverberate, ring, ringing, ripple, roll, rolling, rub-a-dub, rumble, rustle, semivowel, sigh, sing, skirl, slosh, slush, snap, snarl, sonant, song, speak, splash, splat, splosh, squelch, step, strum, susurration, susurrus, swish, swoosh, swosh, tap, tapping, throbbing, thrum, thud, thump, thumping, thunk, tick, ticking, ticktack, ticktock, ting, tink, tinkle, tintinnabulation, toll, tone, toot, tootle, trample, trampling, trump, twang, tweet, twirp, twitter, ultrasound, unison, vibrate, vibrato, voice, voiced sound, vowel, vowel sound, vroom, waver, whack, whir, whirr, whirring, whish, whistle, whistling, whiz, whizz, zing, zizz
Hypernyms: aesthesis, announce, appear, articulate, auditory communication, body of water, cause to be perceived, channel, denote, enounce, enunciate, esthesis, happening, language unit, linguistic unit, look, measure, mechanical phenomenon, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, pronounce, quantify, say, seem, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression, sound out, sound property, water
Origin of the word Sound
- "noise," c.1280, soun, from O.Fr. son, from L. sonus "sound," from PIE *swonos, from base *swen- "to sound" (cf. Skt. svanati "it sounds," svanah "sound, tone;" L. sonare "to sound;" O.Ir. senim "the playing of an instrument;" O.E. geswin "music, song," swinsian "to sing;" O.N. svanr, O.E. sw… more
- "uninjured," O.E. gesund "sound, safe, healthy," from P.Gmc. *sundas, from root *swen-to- (cf. O.S. gisund, O.Fris. sund, Du. gezond, O.H.G. gisunt, Ger. gesund "healthy," source of the post-sneezing interjection gesundheit; also O.E. swi? "strong," Goth. swin?s "strong," Ger. geschwind "fast, quick"), with c… more
- "fathom, probe," 1336 (implied in sounding), from O.Fr. sonder, from sonde "sounding line," probably from a Gmc. source (cf. O.E. sund "water, sea;" see sound (n.2)). more
- "narrow channel of water," c.1300, from O.N. sund "a strait, swimming," cognate with O.E. sund "power of swimming, water, sea," both from P.Gmc. *swumto-, from base *swem- (see swim (v.)). more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
Words that sound like Sound
sa node, saint, sainted, sainthood, samhita, samite, samnite, samoyed, samoyede, san mateo, sand, sandhi, sandy, sanitate, sanity, santa, santee, sash window, sausage hound, sausage meat, scant, scanty, scend, scent, scent out, scented, schmidt, sciaenid, sciaenidae, scnt, sea chantey, sea mat, seamed, seamount, seanad, seasoned, secant, second, secondo, segment, segmented, seminude, semite, senate, send, send away
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