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What does sonorous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sonorous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.
  2. Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.
  3. Wordy or grandiloquent.
  4. (linguistics) Produced with a relatively open vocal tract and relatively little obstruction of airflow.
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The lush, transparent strings, sweet toned winds, sonorous brass, and bracing percussion congealed into a first rate ensemble.
From the first softly sonorous piano tones, Bronfman played with a fierce passion that was riveting.
The hymn has a heavy, ponderous, sonorous melody that goes all the way back to the chants of the fourth century.
True, it rolls mellifluously off the tongue and hangs in the air like an echo from a bell or the sonorous tones of a self-righteous preacher.
He enchanted the audience with his sonorous voice and his evocations of Milan.
Aside from some frayed wind intonation, the orchestra played with rich, sonorous beauty.

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