Meanings
plural reboations
- 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 2182 more examples
[…]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 560Rustle 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
- Latinreboare
- Englishreboation
From Latin reboare; compare reboant.
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