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sone¹

  • /soʊn/ US
  • /səʊn/ UK

Sounds like Saône, sewn, sown · Rhymes with -əʊn

Where it comes from

From Latin sonus (“sound”).

noun sones

  1. a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing
  2. obsolete Obsolete spelling of son Francis Eaton, and Sarah his wife, and Samuel their sone, a yong child.

Sone²

Where it comes from

From Korean 소원(所願) (sowon, “wish”), a reference to the 2009 Girls' Generation song, "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)."

noun Sones · SONE · S♡NE

  1. A fan of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. The band is known as SNSD (acronym of Korean name So Nyuh Shi Dae). SNSD fans are called Sone^([sic]) and, yes, I am a Sone.

SONE³

noun SONEs

  1. alternative Alternative form of Sone

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noun unit of loudness

Русскийсон son

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MLA

"sone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sone. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

sone. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sone

Chicago

"sone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sone.

BibTeX
@misc{sone_2026,
  title = {sone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}