Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Voice; in music, a voice or voice-part
- noun [plural] In the expressions voces Aretinæ, voces Belgicæ, etc., same as
syllable , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A voice.
- noun (Mus.) a reed stop in an organ, made to imitate the human voice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
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Examples
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As for the sound like a woman laughing and crying, I never said it was a woman's voice; for, in the first place, I could only hear indistinctly; and, secondly, he may have an organ, or some queer instrument or other, with what they call the vox humana stop.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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As for the sound like a woman laughing and crying, I never said it was a woman's voice; for, in the first place, I could only hear indistinctly; and, secondly, he may have an organ, or some queer instrument or other, with what they call the vox humana stop.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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2. The expression vox populi, the voice of the people, is often followed by which other vox?
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2. The expression vox populi, the voice of the people, is often followed by which other vox?
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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The faith in vox populi that this reflects (” the public will reward me for doing what they said they wanted me to do, even if it turns out not to work at all”) is sort of touching, but really lacks any basis in the evidence.
Matthew Yglesias » The Bad Economics and Worse Political Science of Fiscal Retrenchment 2010
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Life of Christ by Ludolf of Saxony gives this quotation with the word vox instead of tuba (part ii.ch. lxxxvii.
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In the third place, he has learned much by what is called the vox viva.
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SCHNEIDER: Ever hear the Latin phrase vox populi vox dei?
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While thus controverting the so - called vox Dei (are not popular opinions generally popular prejudices?) and the pseudo-critics who create or follow it, I have no intention either to deny or conceal the Polish master's excess of languor and melancholy.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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In the third place, he has learned much by what is called the vox viva.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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