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Sonant

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adjective. Voiced, as a speech sound.

noun. A voiced speech sound.

noun. A syllabic consonant in Indo-European.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to or having sound; sounding.

In pron., noting certain alphabetic sounds, as the vowels, semivowels, nasals, and voiced mutes and fricatives, the utterance of which includes the element of tone, or a vibration of the vocal chords, as a, l, n, b, z, v (the last three as opposed to p, s, f, which are similar utterances without tone); voiced, vocal, intonated (soft and flat are also sometimes used in the same sense).

In entomology, same as sonorific, 2.

noun. In pron., a sonant letter.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adjective. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

adjective. Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; vocal; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- said of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adjective. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

adjective. voiced

noun. A voiced letter.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun. a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords

adjective. produced with vibration of the vocal cords

Word Usage

"In verses marked 's' the last sonant is shorter than the average of the preceding sonants."

cross-reference

vocal

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

phone sound speech sound

Same Context

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Synonym

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accented allophone alveolar apical apico-alveolar