Spirant

ahd-5
  • noun. undefined
  • adjective. Fricative.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A consonant uttered with perceptible blowing, or expulsion of breath; an alphabetic sound in the utterance of which the organs are brought near together but not wholly closed; a rustling, or fricative, or continuable consonant.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, ยงยง 197-208.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A fricative.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
  • adjective. of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
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