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  1. 1. a. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding. Source: opted
  2. 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. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A sonant letter. Source: opted
  4. 4. adj. produced with vibration of the vocal cords Source: wordnet
  5. 5. n. a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords Source: wordnet
  6. 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. Source: webster
  7. 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. Source: adambom
  8. 8. n. a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords Source: ecdict

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