sonorous
pronunciation
How to pronounce sonorous in British English:
UK [ˈsɒnərəs]
How to pronounce sonorous in American English:
US [ˈsɑnərəs]
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- Adjective:
- full and loud and deep
Word Origin
- sonorous
- sonorous: see sound
- sonorous (adj.)
- 1610s, from Latin sonorus "resounding," from sonor "sound, noise," from sonare "to sound" (see sonata). Related: Sonorously; sonorousness. Earlier was sonouse (c. 1500), from Medieval Latin sonosus; sonourse "having a pleasing voice" (c. 1400), from sonor + -y (2).
Example
- 1. His ecstatic declamation of the sonorous rhythm was enough for me .
- 2. There is a sonorous bell in tower .
- 3. There is a sonorous bell in the tower .
- 4. The sonorous voice of the speaker echoed round the room .
- 5. He took his job seriously : so seriously that , with his professor 's glasses and a voice as sonorous as gravel shifting underground , he seemed like a shaman of the trade .