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sonorous | cello |

As an adjective sonorous

is capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.

As a noun cello is

a large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings. (From lowest to highest C-G-D-A.

sonorous

English

Alternative forms

* sonourous (rare)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1837 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=DfIsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA162 , original= , chapter= Mercury de Breze , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= , location= New York , editor= , volume= 2 , page= 162 , passage= The Oath is redacted ; pronounced aloud by President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it. }}
  • Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.
  • * Addison
    • The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.
  • * E. Everett
    • There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.
  • Wordy or grandiloquent.

    • Related terms

    * sonorant * sonority * sonorously * sonorousness

    cello

    English

    (wikipedia cello) (commons)

    Etymology 1

    Shortening of violoncello.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (musical instruments) A large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings. (From lowest to highest C-G-D-A)
    • Synonyms
    * violoncello
    Meronyms
    * back * bout ** upper bout ** c-bout ** lower bout * bridge * endpin, spike, tail spike ** endpin stopper * f-hole, sound hole * fine tuner * fingerboard * neck * purfling, edgework * rib ** upper rib ** c-rib ** lower rib * saddle * scroll ** peg ** pegbox ** nut * shoulder * sound post * string * tailgut * tailpiece * top, front, belly, table * waist
    Derived terms
    * cellist

    Etymology 2

    Shortening of cellophane.

    Noun

    (-)
  • cellophane
  • * 2011 , Ava Carroll-Brown, Where Is Your Mother?
    • Chocolates arranged in a candy dish or basket, antique or purchased in accordance to(SIC) the personal taste of the host/hostess, wrapped with cello wrap and tied with a lovely ribbon—decadent!
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