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sounder

/ˈsaʊndɚ/

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What does sounder mean?

adjective

  1. comparative form of sound: more sound

noun

  1. Something or someone who makes a sound.
  2. An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
More meanings (7)

noun

  1. Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).
  2. A device for making soundings at sea.
  3. A person who takes soundings.
  4. A fishfinder.
  5. A group of wild boar.
  6. A young boar.
  7. (dated) A stethoscope.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈsaʊndɚ/

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There is nothing so absurd that some man has not affirmed, rendering himself the scorn and laughing-stock of persons of sounder understanding.
William GodwinThoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorProject Gutenberg ebook #743
Edison thought that the longitudinal vibrations caused by the sounder produced a more marked effect, and proceeded to try out his theory.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
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The home front was strengthened in England and France by reinforced and sounder organisations, and by the vigorous steps taken by America.
Victor LefebureThe Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and WarProject Gutenberg ebook #1272
At this period the single opinion in the parish on herself and her doings that she valued as sounder than her own was Gabriel Oak’s.
Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdProject Gutenberg ebook #27
These reflections had tamed and brought down to a pitch of sounder judgment a temper, which, under other circumstances, might have waxed haughty, supercilious, and obstinate.
Walter ScottIvanhoe: A RomanceProject Gutenberg ebook #82