sound

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Meaning

1. Healthy.
2. Complete, solid, or secure.
3. Having the property of soundness.
4. (slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
5. Quiet and deep.
6. Heavy; laid on with force.
7. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.

noise

make a noise

in good health

free from disease

speech sound

make a sound

make sound

make noise

auditory sensation

produce a sound

play upon

adequate to

cry aloud

make an indistinct noise

make sounds

speckless

strike up

wamble

whole-souled

annoy by making annoying noise

be struck

smack the lips

free from sickness

be fine

musical sound

sound of music

phono

sound waves

make a noise in eating

not broken

not diseased

not wounded

unconstricted

swimming bladder

articulate sound

rumour news

sudden noise

try to know

voice language name

reputation hour

spy out the land

acoustic property

loundness

something expressed

laugh loudly

appear to be

be heard

flow off

full-dress

give a ring

inhere in

musical note

ring the bell

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/saʊnd/

From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund, ġesund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy”). Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.