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
The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The use of speech to express an idea
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, orthography, publishing, writing
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noun
The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: communications, human-sciences, journalism, linguistics, literature, media, orthography, phonology, publishing, sciences, writing
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noun
The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [phipʊ], [khoɤd], or [khoɤ] respectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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noun
the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: utterance
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Broader terms: auditory communication
Narrower terms: roll call, cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation, croak, croaking, exclamation, exclaiming, expletive, groan, moan, hem, ahem, howl, howling, ululation, laugh, laughter, mumble, paging, profanity, pronunciation, exultation, rejoicing, jubilation, sigh, suspiration, snarl, speaking, speech production, speech, sputter, splutter, rasp, rasping, growling
noun
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: voice, vocalisation, vocalism, phonation, vox
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Broader terms: communication
Narrower terms: singing voice, sprechgesang, sprechstimme, voice over
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekw-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkws Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōx Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vōcālisbor. Middle English vocal English vocal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English vocalize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English vocalization From vocalize + -ation.
Across languages
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
