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1. Characterized by resonance
   - resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative, boomy
    
2. (of a statement or endorsement) clear and forceful
   "she got a ringing endorsement"

1. The sound of a bell ringing
   "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells";
   - ring, tintinnabulation
    
2. The giving of a ring as a token of engagement
    
3. Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
   - plangency, resonance, reverberance, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy, vibrance

1. Sound loudly and sonorously
   "the bells rang";
   - peal
    
2. Fill for a short time with sound and echoes
   "the hall rang with laughter";
   - resound, echo, reverberate
    
3. Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
   "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church";
   - knell, knoll [archaic]
    
4. Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
   "I tried to ring you all night";
   - call, telephone, call up, phone
    
5. Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
   "The forest rings my property";
   - surround, environ, skirt, border
    
6. Attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
   "ring birds";
   - band

Sounds like: rings, winging, wr

Derived forms: ringings

See also: reverberant, ring out

Type of: adjoin, attach, betrothal, betrothment, contact, engagement, go, meet, quality, sound, telecommunicate, timber [non-standard], timbre, tone, touch, troth [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Ringing