different between celebrated vs resoundingly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l.?.b?e?.t?d/
• Hyphenation: cel?e?brat?ed

Adjective

celebrated (comparative more celebrated, superlative most celebrated)

1. famous or widely praised

   She became a celebrated actress, but never won any major awards.

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Verb

celebrated

1. simple past tense and past participle of celebrate

See also

• well-known

Anagrams

• braceleted

English

Etymology

resounding +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /???za?nd??li/

Adverb

resoundingly (comparative more resoundingly, superlative most resoundingly)

1. With a loud, resonant sound.

   The bells tolled resoundingly.

2. (by extension) Emphatically, so as to be celebrated.

   The children resoundingly defeated the bully.

Quotations

• 1859 - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book II, chapter 6

  The corner has been mentioned as a wonderful corner for echoes; it had begun to echo so resoundingly to the tread of coming feet, that it seemed as though the very mention of that weary pacing to and fro had set it going.

• 1909 - H. G. Wells, Ann Veronica, a modern love story, chapter XIII

  Then suddenly he seized a new preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a week's work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the bookcase;

• 1939 - Robert E. Howard, Gates of Empire

  "Let him return and be damned!" shouted Giles, slapping Marge's fat haunch resoundingly. "He may be lord of the keep, but at present we are keepers of the cellar! More ale! Agnes, you little slut, another song!"

• 1946 — Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, ch. 5

  My heart needed no tutor for its recognitions, and cried its own "Bravos!" the more resoundingly because un-often summoned from silence.

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