noun
Meaning 1
A whispering or rustling sound; a murmur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
susurrus
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈsuː.sə.ɹəs/
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US: /ˈsu.sə.ɹəs/
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US: /səˈsəɹ.əs/
noun
Meaning 2
the indistinct sound of people whispering
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a soft susurrus of conversation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: susurration
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sound
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin susurrus (“a humming, whispering”); reduplication of imitative Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”).
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: kahina — whispering or rustling sound
- Finnish: rahina — whispering or rustling sound
- Finnish: rapina — whispering or rustling sound
- Finnish: havina — whispering or rustling sound
- French: susurrement — whispering or rustling sound
- German: Säuseln — whispering or rustling sound
- Hebrew: רשרוש (rishrúsh) — whispering or rustling sound
- Hebrew: המהום (himhúm) — whispering or rustling sound
- Latin: susurrus — whispering or rustling sound
- Spanish: susurro — whispering or rustling sound
- Tibetan: འུར་རུ་རུ ('ur ru ru) — whispering or rustling sound
- Tibetan: དི་རི་རི (di ri ri) — whispering or rustling sound