English-Thai Dictionary

plangent

ADJ ดังสนั่น  ดังก้อง  pounding roaring beating striking dang-sa-nan

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PLANGENT

Plan "gent, a. Etym: [L. plangens, -entis, fr. plangere to beat. See Plaint. ]

 

Defn: Beating; dashing, as a wave. [R.] "The plangent wave. " H. Taylor.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

plangent

plan gent |ˈplanjənt ˈplænʤənt | ▶adjective chiefly literary (of a sound ) loud, reverberating, and often melancholy. DERIVATIVES plan gen cy noun, plan gent ly adverb ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Latin plangent- ‘lamenting, ’ from the verb plangere.

 

Oxford Dictionary

plangent

plangent |ˈplan (d )ʒ (ə )nt | ▶adjective chiefly literary (of a sound ) loud and resonant, with a mournful tone. DERIVATIVES plangency noun, plangently adverb ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Latin plangent- ‘lamenting ’, from the verb plangere.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

plangent

plangent adjective literary a plangent moan from somewhere not too distant: melancholy, mournful, plaintive; sonorous, resonant, loud.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

plangent

plangent adjective literary from somewhere outside came a plangent keening: melancholy, mournful, plaintive; sonorous, reverberant, reverberating, resonant, loud.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

plangent

plan gent /plǽn (d )ʒ (ə )nt /形容詞 ｟文 ｠〈波などが 〉どうどうと打ち寄せる ; 〈鐘の音などが 〉鳴り響く, 悲しげな .～ly 副詞 pl á ng en cy /-si /名詞