sone
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1,000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
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How to use sone in a sentence
Or read: 'That mad her to slepe sone'; without elision of e in made (Koch).
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerIn the Proverbs of Hendyng, it is: 'Sottes bolt is sone shote,' l. 85.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerIrn li stille gedere sone rust weater e ne sture nawt; readliche stinke.
Will, ye sone of will birke of this hamlett, by Mr. Herring.
The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge | Henry George DavisBot quhat is the pryde of a proud haultane man worth, quhen he can nocht remembre of the poyntis that God may sone lawe him with?
The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood | Ramon Llull
British Dictionary definitions for sone
/ (səʊn) /
a subjective unit of loudness equal to that experienced by a normal person hearing a 1 kHz tone at 40 dB
Origin of sone
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