adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- a sonic extravagance
- on a sonic level
- sonic production
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sonic
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
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɒnɪk/
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General-American, dialectal: /ˈsɑnɪk/ of Canada
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Canada, dialectal: /ˈsɒnɪk/ of the US
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Australian: /ˈsɔnɪk/
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Australian: /ˈsɒnɪk/
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rhymes with -ɒnɪk
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CMU ARPABET: S AA1 N IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
(of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a sonic boom
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: transonic
Antonyms: subsonic, supersonic
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
relating to audible sound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a sonic wave
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swenh2- Proto-Indo-European *swónh2os Latin sonus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English sonic From Latin sonus + English -ic.
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: صَوْتِيّ (ṣawtiyy) — of or relating to sound
- Belarusian: гукавы́ (hukavý) — of or relating to sound
- Bulgarian: зву́ков (zvúkov) — of or relating to sound
- Catalan: sònic — of or relating to sound
- Chinese Mandarin: 聲音的 /声音的 (shēngyīn de) — of or relating to sound
- Chinese Mandarin: 音響的 /音响的 (yīnxiǎng de) — of or relating to sound
- Czech: zvukový — of or relating to sound
- Danish: sonisk — of or relating to sound
- Dutch: sonisch — of or relating to sound
- Dutch: geluids- — of or relating to sound
- Esperanto: sona — of or relating to sound
- Finnish: sooninen — of or relating to sound
- Finnish: ääni- — of or relating to sound
- French: sonore — of or relating to sound
- French: sonique — of or relating to sound
- Galician: sónico — of or relating to sound
- German: Schall- — of or relating to sound
- German: akustisch — of or relating to sound
- Hungarian: hang- — of or relating to sound
- Hungarian: hangos — of or relating to sound
- Icelandic: hljóð- — of or relating to sound
- Irish: sonach — of or relating to sound
- Italian: sonoro — of or relating to sound
- Italian: sonico — of or relating to sound
- Japanese: 音の (oto no) — of or relating to sound
- Japanese: 音響の (onkyō no) — of or relating to sound
- Korean: 소리의 (soriui) — of or relating to sound
- Korean: 음의 (eumui) — of or relating to sound
- Korean: 음향의 (eumhyang'ui) — of or relating to sound
- Macedonian: звуков (zvukov) — of or relating to sound
- Norwegian Bokmål: sonisk — of or relating to sound
- Persian: صوتی (sowti) — of or relating to sound
- Polish: dźwiękowy — of or relating to sound
- Portuguese: sónico — of or relating to sound
- Portuguese: sônico — of or relating to sound
- Russian: звуково́й (zvukovój) — of or relating to sound
- Serbo-Croatian: зву̑чан — of or relating to sound
- Serbo-Croatian: zvȗčan — of or relating to sound
- Slovak: zvukový — of or relating to sound
- Slovene: zvočen — of or relating to sound
- Spanish: sónico — of or relating to sound
- Swedish: sonisk — of or relating to sound
- Ukrainian: звукови́й (zvukovýj) — of or relating to sound
- Uzbek: tovushli — of or relating to sound
- Bulgarian: със скоростта на звука (sǎs skorostta na zvuka) — having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air
- Catalan: sònic — having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air
- Irish: sonach — having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air
- Russian: околозвуково́й (okolozvukovój) — having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air
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