Phrase guide
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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.
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noun
The vowel sound in the words game and cake; /eɪ/. (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in gaming versus gamming).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: phonics
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: short a
noun
The vowel sound in the English words bath and castle when pronounced with an open back unrounded vowel (/ɑː/); associated with southern England accents.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, especially
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: broad a
Antonyms: flat a, short a
History
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