Thesaurus: continuant

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1. a. Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound.
2. n. A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged.
3. adj. of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)
4. n. consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract
5. Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n. A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged.
6. Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound.-- n.
7. n consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract s of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')