SONOROUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sonorous mean? 

• SONOROUS (adjective)
  The adjective SONOROUS has 1 sense:

1. full and loud and deep

  Familiarity information: SONOROUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SONOROUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full and loud and deep

Synonyms:

heavy; sonorous

Context example:

a herald chosen for his sonorous voice

Similar:

full ((of sound) having marked deepness and body)

Derivation:

sonority; sonorousness (having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant)

 Context examples 

” If he weakly showed the least disposition to hear it, Captain Hopkins, in a loud sonorous voice, gave him every word of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The type of these people, said he in his sonorous fashion, whether judged by cranial capacity, facial angle, or any other test, cannot be regarded as a low one; on the contrary, we must place it as considerably higher in the scale than many South American tribes which I can mention.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could see that the unfortunate doctor was in the last stage of indecision, from which he was rescued by the deep, sonorous voice of the red-bearded Duke, which boomed out like a dinner-gong.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet, so strong is habit, that, even in this extremity of emotion he assumed the deferential air of the high-class valet, and his sentences formed themselves in the sonorous fashion which had struck my attention upon that first day when the curricle of my uncle had stopped outside my father’s door.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Prone upon the floor lay Mr. March, with his respectable legs in the air, and beside him, likewise prone, was Demi, trying to imitate the attitude with his own short, scarlet-stockinged legs, both grovelers so seriously absorbed that they were unconscious of spectators, till Mr. Bhaer laughed his sonorous laugh, and Jo cried out, with a scandalized face...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A joyous stir was now audible in the hall: gentlemen's deep tones and ladies' silvery accents blent harmoniously together, and distinguishable above all, though not loud, was the sonorous voice of the master of Thornfield Hall, welcoming his fair and gallant guests under its roof.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He preceded us to the dining-room—the first room I had entered in that house—and flinging open the door of Mr. Wickfield's former office, said, in a sonorous voice: Miss Trotwood, Mr. David Copperfield, Mr. Thomas Traddles, and Mr. Dixon!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Oh, nothing, nothing, said he, and strolled back to where the voices of the contending men of science rose in a prolonged duet, the high, strident note of Summerlee rising and falling to the sonorous bass of Challenger.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)