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SONANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sonant mean?
• SONANT (noun)
The noun SONANT has 1 sense:
1. a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords
Familiarity information: SONANT used as a noun is very rare.
• SONANT (adjective)
The adjective SONANT has 1 sense:
1. produced with vibration of the vocal cords
Familiarity information: SONANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
sonant; voiced sound
Hypernyms ("sonant" is a kind of...):
phone; sound; speech sound ((phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language)
Derivation:
sonant (produced with vibration of the vocal cords)
sound (utter with vibrating vocal chords)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Produced with vibration of the vocal cords
Synonyms:
Context example:
voiced consonants such as 'b' and 'g' and 'z'
Derivation:
sonant (a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords)
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