Thesaurus: sibilant

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1. a. Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.
2. n. A sibiliant letter.
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. a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
5. Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds. -- n. A sibiliant letter.
6. Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing;as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.-- n.
7. j:65/n:35 n. a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)