Thesaurus: sonant

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1. a. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
2. a. Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid 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.
3. n. A sonant letter.
4. adj. produced with vibration of the vocal cords
5. n. a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords
6. 1. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding. 2. (Phonetics) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid 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. -- n. A sonant letter.
7. Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocalsound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced;tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels,semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonantsb, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f,etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.-- n.
8. n. a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords