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sonant |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sonant \So"nant\, a. [L. sonans, -antis, p. pr of sonare to sound. See {Sound} a noise.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sonant adj : (linguistics) of speech sounds [syn: {voiced}] [ant: {surd}] n : a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords [syn: {voiced sound}]
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