ARTICULATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does articulator mean? 

• ARTICULATOR (noun)
  The noun ARTICULATOR has 2 senses:

1. someone who pronounces words

2. a movable speech organ

  Familiarity information: ARTICULATOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTICULATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who pronounces words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("articulator" is a kind of...):

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "articulator"):

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

subvocaliser; subvocalizer (someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds)

Derivation:

articulate (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A movable speech organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("articulator" is a kind of...):

organ of speech; speech organ; vocal organ (any of the organs involved in speech production)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "articulator"):

jawbone; jowl; lower jaw; lower jawbone; mandible; mandibula; mandibular bone; submaxilla (the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth)

clapper; glossa; lingua; tongue (a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity)

lip (either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking)