different between resound vs roar

English

Etymology 1

From re- +? sound.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i??sa?nd/

Verb

resound (third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To echo (a sound) or again sound.
   • 1992, Health Devices, volume 21, page 117:

     Any new alarms, from any patient, will resound the alarm tone.

Translations

Noun

resound (plural resounds)

1. An echoing or reverberating sound.
   • 1932, Grantland Rice, Harford Powel, The Omnibus of Sport (page 370)

     Presently, out of the turmoil, the fighting of horses, the resound of blows, the murky cloud of dust and sand, he crawled, in time to see the Corinthian and Byzantine go on down the course after Ben-Hur, who had not been an instant delayed.

Etymology 2

From Middle English resownen, from Old French resoner, from Latin reson?re (“sound again, resound, echo”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???za?nd/

Verb

resound (third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded)

1. (intransitive) To reverberate with sound or noise.

2. (intransitive) To make a reverberating sound.

3. (intransitive) To be much mentioned.
4. (transitive) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo.
5. (transitive) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.

Derived terms

• resounded
• resounding

Translations

Anagrams

• Oresund, enduros, sounder, undoers, unsored

English

Etymology

From Middle English roren, raren, from Old English r?rian (“to roar; wail; lament”), from Proto-Germanic *rair?n? (“to bellow; roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to shout; bellow; yell; bark”), perhaps of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rô, IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) enPR: rôr, IPA^(key): /???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: r?r, IPA^(key): /?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: raw (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

roar (third-person singular simple present roars, present participle roaring, simple past and past participle roared)

1. (intransitive) To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
2. To laugh in a particularly loud manner.

3. Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
   • {1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene Bk 1, Canto VI, XXIV, lines 6&7}

     Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.

4. Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
   • How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.

5. (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
6. (transitive) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
   • 1639, John Ford, The Lady's Trial

     This last action will roar thy infamy.
7. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
   • 1724, Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time

     It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.

8. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
9. (Britain Yorkshire, North Midlands, informal) to cry

Translations

Noun

roar (plural roars)

1. A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
2. The cry of the lion.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

     The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.

3. The deep cry of the bull.
4. A loud resounding noise.

   the roar of a motorbike

   • 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:

     "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."

5. A show of strength or character.

Translations

Anagrams

• Raro, orra

Swedish

Verb

roar

1. present tense of roa.