reverberant

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19
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11
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈvɜːbəɹənt/
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/ɹɪˈvɜːbəɹənt/ · /ɹəˈvɝbəɹənt/ · /ɹiˈvɝbəɹənt/

Definition of reverberant

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (rare)Turned up sigmoidally, with the end pointing outward; reboundant.
    “Their tailes forked, nowed, resignant, reuerberant, descendant, percussed and contercoloured. In all these fourmes, or likenesses they are descriued, and pictured: as also otherwise ensigned or marked, then here is remembred. Wherefore I wil presently write more, […]”
    “A Lion rampant regardant, the tail reverberant or beaten back, or reboundant, as having beaten it to his back, and it hath rebounded again from thence.”
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adj

  1. (rare)Turned up sigmoidally, with the end pointing outward; reboundant.
    “Their tailes forked, nowed, resignant, reuerberant, descendant, percussed and contercoloured. In all these fourmes, or likenesses they are descriued, and pictured: as also otherwise ensigned or marked, then here is remembred. Wherefore I wil presently write more, […]”
    “A Lion rampant regardant, the tail reverberant or beaten back, or reboundant, as having beaten it to his back, and it hath rebounded again from thence.”
  2. Tending to reverberate.
    “His snoring was reverberant.”
    “beneath the reverberant branches”

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Etymology

From Middle French reverberant (present participle of reverberer), or directly from Latin reverberāns (present participle of reverberō); compare French réverbérant, Italian riverberante, Portuguese reverberante, and Spanish reverberante.

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