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Definition of reverberation : The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.

Synonyms:

comeback, replication, rejoinder, sound reflection, noise, backlash, counter, return, repercussion, sounds, retort, replica, riposte, rebound, recoil, reproduction

resonance, echo, vibrancy, sonorousness

buzz, rumble, drone, throb, thunder, beat, chant, racket, roll, thrum, hum, drum, rattle, chatter, clatter, grumble

Usage examples:

• It was all so little like war, the only suggestion of conflict the uniforms we wore, and the dull reverberation of that distant cannonading. - "Love Under Fire", Randall Parrish.
• Hotter and hotter the sun burned; more and more blinding became his reverberation. - "Two Years in the French West Indies", Lafcadio Hearn.
• I was in my seventeenth year when the raid and the capture of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame, enjoyed its sharp reverberation among us, though we were then on the other side of the world; and I count this as the very first reminder that reached me of our living, on our side, in a political order: I had perfectly taken in from the pages of " Punch," which contributed in the highest degree to our education, that the peoples on the other side so lived. - "A Small Boy and Others", Henry James.