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adjective

Resonant adj.

Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. "Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old."

(Elec.) Adjusted as to dimensions (as an electric circuit) so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Resonant" Quotes from Famous Books

... challenge, sharp, clear, resonant, rang on the still night air. Three soldiers halted in their tracks, the fourth, with the white chevrons of a corporal on his sleeves, came bounding across the street without waiting for a demand to advance ...

— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King

... resonant. "Colonel Currie," he said, "How many men of this kind have you with you? They are indeed a splendid lot, and the Empire owes a debt of gratitude to these gallant soldiers for coming ...

— The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders • J. A. Currie

... Flamby's right, Don, taking up the cane grip, moved along the platform in the direction of the guard's van, which was apparently laden with an incredible number of empty and resonant milk cans. The porter whom he had hailed, a morbid spirit who might suitably have posed for ...

— The Orchard of Tears • Sax Rohmer

... and as abruptly stop. It was evening and the stores were closed, but various citizens still sat along the edge of the sidewalk, smoking and talking in the semi-darkness. Hardy paused and listened a moment. The voice which he had heard was that of no ordinary man; it was deep and resonant, with a rough, overbearing note almost military in its brusqueness; but it had ceased and another voice, low and protesting, had taken its place. In the gloom he could just make out the forms of the two men, sitting on their heels against the wall and engaged in a one-sided argument. ...

— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge

... turn you into a rich and able artist." This man had a splendid person and a most arrogant spirit, with the air of a great soldier more than a sculptor, especially in regard to his vehement gestures and his resonant voice, together with a habit he had of knitting his brows, enough to frighten any man of courage. He kept talking every day about his gallant feats among those beasts ...

— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini

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