Sound meaning
An example of sound is music.
An example of sound is voices.
An example of sound is a well made chair.
An example of sound is the English Channel.
An example of sound is someone's voice being deep.
An example of sound is someone's voice seeming scared.
Within sound of my voice.
A hollow sound.
That argument sounds reasonable.
Sounded the gong.
Sound a warning.
Sound a vowel.
Is the bridge sound?
Gave their rivals a sound thrashing.
A sound sleep.
Sound doctrine.
Sound asleep.
Sounded out her feelings.
Within sound of the bells.
The sound of his report.
Your voice sounds hoarse.
To sound troubled.
Their plan sounds crazy.
The clock sounds the hour.
To sound someone's praises.
Sound timber.
A sound body and mind.
Sound advice.
Sound doctrine.
A sound defeat.
A sound title to a property.
Sound asleep.
A hollow sound.
Within sound of my voice.
Sound a vowel.
That argument sounds reasonable.
Is the bridge sound?
A sound sleep.
Sound asleep.
He was safe and sound.
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
"How are you?" - "I'm sound."
That's a sound track you're playing.
A sound beating.
A sound title to land.
"I found my jacket." - "Sound."
When the horn sounds, take cover.
He sounded good when we last spoke.
That story sounds like a pack of lies!
He sounds the instrument.
When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
To sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra.
Didn't like the sound of the invitation.
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of sound
- Middle English sounden from Old French sonder from sonde sounding line probably of Germanic origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English soun from Old French son from Latin sonus swen- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old English sund swimming, sea
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old English gesund
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English sound, sund, isund, Èesund, from Old English sund, Ä¡esund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous"), from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy"), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy"). Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound"), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy"), West Frisian sûn (“healthy"), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound"), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy"), German gesund (“healthy, sound"), Danish sund (“healthy"), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy"), Irish fétaid (“to be able"). Related also to German geschwind (“fast, quick"), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent"). See swith.
From Wiktionary
- From Middle English sound, sund, from Old English sund (“the power, capacity, or act of swimming; swimming; sea; ocean; water; sound; strait; channel"), from Proto-Germanic *sundÄ… (“swimming; sound"), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea"). Cognate with Dutch sond (“sound; strait"), Danish sund (“sound; strait; channel"), Swedish sund (“sound; strait; channel"), Icelandic sund (“sound; strait; channel"). Related to swim.
From Wiktionary
- Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line") of Germanic origin, compare Old English sundgyrd (“a sounding rod"), sundline (“a sounding line"), Old English sund (“water", "sea"). More at Etymology 3 above
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- Noun: from Middle English sownde, alteration of sowne, from Anglo-Norman sun, soun, Old French son, from accusative of Latin sonus.
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- Verb: from Middle English sownden, sounen, from Anglo-Norman suner, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin sonare
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- Old English sund, a swimming, akin to modern swim.
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- From the common noun sound (“strait, inlet").
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- The euphonic -d appears in the fifteenth century.
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