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adjective

Sonorous adj.

1.

Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.

2.

Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.

3.

Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.

4.

Impressive in sound; high-sounding. "The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression." "There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude."

5.

(Med.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi.

Sonorous figures (Physics), figures formed by the vibrations of a substance capable of emitting a musical tone, as when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge of a piece of glass or metal on which sand is strewed, and the sand arranges itself in figures according to the musical tone. Called also acoustic figures.

Sonorous tumor (Med.), a tumor which emits a clear, resonant sound on percussion.

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"Sonorous" Quotes from Famous Books

... dilating, contracting eyes never moving for an instant. As the song died away, came again that awful tremor, indicative of the coming death-spring, and again she sang,—this time the old Pange lingua, its sonorous Latin sounding in the deserted church like ...

— Black Spirits and White - A Book of Ghost Stories • Ralph Adams Cram

... voice. Immediately the dark vaults seemed to repeat his words; and the sound increased, as it moved away, as if a thousand persons, placed at intervals, were repeating some watch-word. A sonorous "Hiou! hiou!" prevailed over the uproar, and the face of l'Encuerado appeared on our right before the echo of the ...

— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart

... often of an afternoon to read the results of his morning's work to the assembled family. While we sat in a circle, listening in appreciative silence, he nervously paced the room, reading aloud in his full sonorous voice—a voice that always seemed remarkable in so frail a man—his face flushed and his manner embarrassed, for, far from being overconfident about his work, he always seemed to feel a sort of shy anxiety lest it should not be up to the mark. He invariably gave respectful ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

... put the buckets down before him," replied Singh; and as the water-bearer drew near the elephant evidently scented the refreshing fluid, and uttered a sonorous snort. ...

— Glyn Severn's Schooldays • George Manville Fenn

... as he had left it, and a clean, cold air that stirred his blood came in, with the smell of fir and cedar, but what he noticed was the deeper tone in the roar of the river that seemed flung back in sonorous antiphones by the climbing pines. It had occurred to him on other occasions when he was in a fanciful mood that they were singing a majestic Benedicite, but just then he was uneasily conscious that there was ...

— The Greater Power • Harold Bindloss

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