Definitions for: Ringing


[n] having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
[n] the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
[n] the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe
[adj] having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon"



Webster (1913) Definition: Ring"ing,
a & n. from Ring, v.

Ringing engine, a simple form of pile driver in which the
monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.

Synonyms: bright, brilliant, clinking, echoing(a), hollow, jingling, jingly, live(a), plangency, reechoing, resonance, resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberance, reverberant, reverberating, reverberative, ring, rolling, sonority, sonorousness, tinkling, tinkly, tintinnabulation, vibrancy

Antonyms: nonresonant, unreverberant

See Also: bell ringing, betrothal, engagement, quality, sound, timber, timbre, tone, troth

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