reboation

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noun

A loud reverberation; the echo of a bellow or roar.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounreboation (plural reboations)

plural reboations

  1. A loud reverberation; the echo of a bellow or roar.

    To an untrained ear the deep-mouthed reboation of a ship's horn seems to have lost itself in the fog,[…].

    1937, The Atlantic, volume 159, page 218
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    […]were deafened in the awe-inspiring roar of the torrent, the reboations of which we heard at some distance after we had left the spot whence they proceeded.

    1874, The Yorkshire Magazine: A Monthly Literary Magazine, volumes 3-4, page 560

    Rustle we with rustle answer, thunder with our rolling thunder, / In a crashing reboation, threefold, tenfold multiplied.

    1965, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Albert G. Latham, edited by Ernest Rhys, Faust: Parts I and II, page 249

Origin

  1. Latinreboare
  2. Englishreboation

From Latin reboare; compare reboant.

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