reboation

reboation

English

Etymology

From Latin reboare; compare reboant.

Noun

reboation (plural reboations)

1. A loud reverberation; the echo of a bellow or roar.
   • 1874, The Yorkshire Magazine: A Monthly Literary Magazine, Volumes 3-4, page 560,

     […] were deafened in the awe-inspiring roar of the torrent, the reboations of which we heard at some distance after we had left the spot whence they proceeded.

   • 1937, The Atlantic, Volume 159, page 218,

     To an untrained ear the deep-mouthed reboation of a ship's horn seems to have lost itself in the fog, […] .

   • 1965, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Albert G. Latham (translator), Ernest Rhys (editor), Faust: Parts I and II, page 249,

     Rustle we with rustle answer, thunder with our rolling thunder, / In a crashing reboation, threefold, tenfold multiplied.

Related terms

• reboant

Anagrams

• aerobiont