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reverberant

adjective /ɹɪˈvɜːbəɹənt/

  1. Turned up sigmoidally, with the end pointing outward; reboundant.

    rare

    Their tailes forked, nowed, resignant, reuerberant, descendant, percussed and contercoloured. In all these fourmes, or likenesses they are descriued, and pictured: as also otherwise ensigned or marked, then here is remembred. Wherefore I wil presently write more, […]

  2. Tending to reverberate.

    His snoring was reverberant.

Where it comes from

From Middle French reverberant (present participle of reverberer), or directly from Latin reverberāns (present participle of reverberō); compare French réverbérant, Italian riverberante, Portuguese reverberante, and Spanish reverberante.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry reverberant (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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