Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a tendency to reverberate.
- adjective Characterized by reverberation; resounding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Reverberating; causing reverberation; especially, returning sound; resounding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective heraldry Turned up
sigmoidally , with the end pointingoutward ; reboundant. - adjective Tending to
reverberate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected
Etymologies
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Examples
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And if the crutches echo, we know the space is reverberant.
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“The Knights Templar were warriors,” Teabing reminded, the sound of his aluminum crutches echoing in this reverberant space.
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A reverberant melodica opens to a stable kick drum, the Balkan effect softer, more Black Ark-ish.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Thievery's Rastas and Austin's Latin Soul Derek Beres 2011
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“The Knights Templar were warriors,” Teabing reminded, the sound of his aluminum crutches echoing in this reverberant space.
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A reverberant melodica opens to a stable kick drum, the Balkan effect softer, more Black Ark-ish.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Thievery's Rastas and Austin's Latin Soul Derek Beres 2011
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These caves were so reverberant that if you clapped your hands it would sound like a flock of birds.
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Along with more conventional renovations, that sum was necessary for an overhaul of the space's raw, intensely reverberant interior—which includes a dramatic, 40-foot-high vaulted ceiling—not only to enhance listening quality, but to protect neighbors living on the floors above in what are now condominiums developed by Two Trees Management Company.
Raising a New Issue in Downtown Brooklyn Steve Dollar 2011
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It is unwise to destroy the proper reverberant acoustical setting for worship in deference to highly infrequent noisy behavior.
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His signature sound — pungent, almost mournfully low and reverberant — is one of the most readily identifiable in jazz today.
With a Country Twang Martin Johnson 2010
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And if the crutches echo, we know the space is reverberant.
yarb commented on the word reverberant
Reverberant (allegro ma non tanto)
your chorus echoes from your evening bath...
- Peter Reading, Chez Vous, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008