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sounder¹

  • /ˈsaʊndɚ/ US

Rhymes with -aʊndə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ġesundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound + -er (comparative suffix).

adjective

  1. comparative comparative form of sound: more sound The Northern Division Traffic Manager has said that there is no present intention of terminating the service, but the hopes previously entertained of expanding it cannot be entertained until it is operating on a sounder economic basis.

sounder²

  • /ˈsaʊndɚ/ US

Rhymes with -aʊndə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound + -er.

noun sounders

  1. Something or someone who makes a sound. a telephone with an electronic sounder
  2. An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  3. dated, plural, plural only A stethoscope.
  4. Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).

    Similar: sting

sounder³

  • /ˈsaʊndɚ/ US

Rhymes with -aʊndə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From French sonder.

noun sounders

  1. A device for making soundings at sea.
  2. A person who takes soundings.
  3. A fishfinder.

sounder⁴

  • /ˈsaʊndɚ/ US

Rhymes with -aʊndə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English soundre, from Anglo-Norman soundre, Old Northern French sondre, from a Germanic language, probably Old English sunor (“herd of swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *suniʀu, plural of *sun (“swine, boar”), from Proto-Germanic *sunaz (“boar”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bring forth, bear, give birth”). Cognate with Dutch zeunie (“trough, drinking bowl”).

noun sounders

  1. A group of wild boar. It was not only that there were wild boars in it, whose sounders would at this season be furiously rooting about, nor that one of the surviving wolves might be slinking behind any tree, with pale eyes and slavering chops.
  2. A young boar.

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@misc{sounder_2026,
  title = {sounder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sounder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}