ก้อง
echo
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- 1 echo、reverberate、resound
Describes a sound echoing or reverberating through a space. The focus is on resonance and reflection, not simply high volume.
echo、reverberate、resound
Means that a voice or sound echoes, reverberates, or carries through a space.
Learning notes
Explanation
The central image of ก้อง is a sound continuing to spread as it echoes through a space. It is especially common with acoustically reflective places such as caves, halls, and rooms. Common patterns include ดังก้อง, “to resound loudly,” and ก้องไปทั่ว〜, “to echo throughout something.” ก้องอยู่ในหู can describe either a sound physically ringing in one’s ears or a voice or sound that remains vivid in one’s memory. With fame or reputation, ก้อง can figuratively mean “to resound throughout the world.” This use has a grand, rhetorical tone. ก้อง is also used as a male name or nickname; in that context, it should be treated as a name rather than translated.
Usage
Used for voices, laughter, music, bells, thunder, explosions, and other sounds echoing through caves, halls, gyms, or rooms. It can also describe a sound lingering in the ears or memory, and rhetorically describe fame or achievements becoming widely known.
Caution
Use ดัง when you only mean that a sound is loud. ก้อง implies that the sound echoes or carries through a space. The figurative expression ก้องโลก is grand and rhetorical; for ordinary statements meaning “famous,” มีชื่อเสียง or ดัง is usually more natural.
Differences from similar words
1 echo synonyms
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ดัง mainly describes a sound as loud. ก้อง emphasizes that the sound echoes or reverberates through a space.
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สะท้อน can describe the reflection of sound or light and the reflection of ideas. ก้อง is more specifically associated with sound reverberating through a space.