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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: acoustics
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noun
Obsolete spelling of son.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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noun
A fan of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: South Korean idol fandom
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noun
Alternative form of Sone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sound unit
History
From Latin sonus (“sound”).
From Korean 소원(所願) (sowon, “wish”), a reference to the 2009 Girls' Generation song, "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)."
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
