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sounder
/ˈsaʊndɚ/
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What does sounder mean?
adjective
- comparative form of sound: more sound
noun
- Something or someone who makes a sound.
- An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
More meanings (7)
noun
- Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).
- A device for making soundings at sea.
- A person who takes soundings.
- A fishfinder.
- A group of wild boar.
- A young boar.
- (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.
Edison thought that the longitudinal vibrations caused by the sounder produced a more marked effect, and proceeded to try out his theory.
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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.
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.
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.