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reboant

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

That reverberates or resounds loudly.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: poetic

Examples

  • 19th C, Alfred Tennyson, Supposed Confessions, The Collected Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1994, page 15, What if / Thou pleadest still, and seest me drive / Through utter dark a full-sail'd skiff, / Unpiloted i' the echoing dance / Of reboant whirlwinds, stooping low / Unto the death, not sunk!

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History

Etymology

From Latin reboō (“bellow, resound”).