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say it: sownd
sound is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "financially secure and safe". It is pronounced /ˈsaʊnd/ — sownd. It carries 25 recorded senses.
financially secure and safe
“sound investments”
“a sound economy”
exercising or showing good judgment
“healthy scepticism”
“a healthy fear of rattlesnakes”
“the healthy attitude of French laws”
“healthy relations between labor and management”
“an intelligent solution”
“a sound approach to the problem”
“sound advice”
“no sound explanation for his decision”
complete; thorough
“politicians have no sound grasp of technology issues”
“he has a sound understanding of the law”
mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
“falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them”
the audible part of a transmitted signal
“they always raise the audio for commercials”
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
a large ocean inlet or deep bay
“the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sound come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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