Consonant

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  • adjective. Being in agreement or accord.
  • adjective. Corresponding or alike in sound, as words or syllables.
  • adjective. Harmonious in sound or tone.
  • noun. A speech sound produced by a partial or complete obstruction of the air stream by any of various constrictions of the speech organs, such as (p), (f), (r), (w), and (h).
  • noun. A letter or character representing such a speech sound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Sounding together; agreeing in sound; specifically, in music, having an agreeable and complete or final effect: said of a combination of sounds.
  • Having or emitting like sounds.
  • Harmonious; agreeing; congruous; consistent: followed generally by to, sometimes by with: as, this rule is consonant to Scripture and reason.
  • [Attrib. use of noun.] Consisting of or relating to consonants; consonantal.
  • noun. An alphabetic element other than a vowel; one of the closer, less resonant and continuable, of the sounds making up a spoken alphabet; an articulate utterance which is combined, to form a syllable, with another opener utterance called a vowel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to.
  • adjective. Having like sounds.
  • adjective. harmonizing together; accordant.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
  • noun. An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
  • noun. A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
  • adjective. Characterized by harmony or agreement.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a speech sound that is not a vowel
  • adjective. involving or characterized by harmony
  • noun. a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
  • adjective. in keeping
  • Word Usage
    "If the last letter of the stem is a consonant, the word is said to have a _consonant stem_; if the stem ends in «-i-», the word is said to have an «i-»_stem_."
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