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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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sonant

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Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sonant has 1 sense

sonant(n = noun.communication) voiced sound - a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords;

is a kind of phone, sound, speech sound

Derived forms adjective sonant₁, verb sound₅

Adjective sonant has 1 sense

sonant(a = adj.all) soft, voiced - produced with vibration of the vocal cords; "a frequently voiced opinion"; "voiced consonants such as `b' and `g' and `z'"

Derived form noun sonant₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sonant, a. [L. sonans, -antis, p. pr. of sonare to sound. See Sound a noise.].

Of or pertaining to sound; sounding. [1913 Webster]
Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; vocal; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- said of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sonant, adj. & n. Phonet.
--adj. (of a sound) voiced and syllabic.
--n. a voiced sound, esp. other than a vowel and capable of forming a syllable, e.g. l, m, n, ng, r.

Derivative

sonancy n.

Etymology

L sonare sonant- sound

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THESAURUS

sonant

accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulate, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oral, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, retroflex, rounded, segmental phoneme, semivowel, soft, sonority, speech sound, spoken, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, viva, vocable, vocal, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide