English Explanatory Dictionary

resonant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Resounding, echoing.
  2. Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.
noun
  1. A sonorant vowel or consonant.
  2. Any of the Proto-Indo-European consonants *l, *m, *n, *r, *w (*u̯), and *y (*i̯) or its descendants in an Indo-European language, capable of syllabic pronunciation in the zero grade and represented by the cover symbol ⟨R⟩ in structural notation.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹɛzənənt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-resonant.wav

Word forms

resonant more resonant most resonant resonants

Etymology

Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

Synonyms

remugient booming sonorant

Derived words

antiresonant gyroresonant microwave resonant cavity thruster multiresonant nonresonant pseudoresonant resonantly unresonant
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