Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Voiced, as a speech sound.
- noun A voiced speech sound.
- noun A syllabic consonant in Indo-European.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
- adjective (Phonetics) 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 , orsurd ; -- said of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonantsb ,d ,g hard,v , etc., as compared with their cognatesp ,t ,k ,f , etc., which are callednonvocal ,surd , oraspirate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
- adjective linguistics
voiced - noun linguistics A
voiced letter.
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In verses marked 's' the last sonant is shorter than the average of the preceding sonants.
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Then I asked about a vowel and they said, "sonant" and then tried "unconsonant".
ea13: Vsi4ko be6e 4ydesno! ea13 2005
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Then I asked about a vowel and they said, "sonant" and then tried "unconsonant".
Vsi4ko be6e 4ydesno! ea13 2005
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{Greek}, Æsop, whose name, involved in myth, possibly connects with: — “Æsopus et Aithiops idem sonant” says the sage.
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[4854] Oscula mille sonant, connexu brachia pallent,
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(For a thing is white, fragrant, sonant, sweet, hot, cold in virtue of a power of acting on sense).
Meteorology 2002
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Since the pangenes were lim - ited to the cell and corresponded one to one with particular hereditary characteristics, and since they were always represented in full measure in the nucleus, the conceptual model developed by de Vries was con - sonant with the principle of the isolation of the germ - plasm and the noninheritance of acquired charac - teristics.
GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968
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And how he would do this he declares a little before: “Sacra verba in alium sensum, quam verba sonant, per inusitatos etiam tropos quandoque explicantur.”
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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* [2161] Sacra verba in alium sensum, quam verba sonant, per inusitatos etiam tropos quandoque explicantur
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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TERITVR, for which Riese cited _Tr_ I iv 9-10 'pinea texta sonant pulsu
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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