Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A band of frequencies in a sound spectrum that have greater intensity and determine the quality of a sound, especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, natural-sciences, phonetics, phonology, physical-sciences, physics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of formative (“a language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistic-morphology, linguistics, morphology, sciences
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Synonyms: formative
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formans.
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
