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Ringing

Ringing Meaning & Definition
Ringing Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ringing: 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

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

Ringing In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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