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Definition of sonant

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Sonant (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..

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Resonant :: Resonant (a.) Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back..

Assonant :: Assonant (a.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

Aspirate :: Aspirate (v. t.) To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant..

Vibrant :: Vibrant (a.) Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums..

Y :: Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272..

Flat :: Flat (superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant..

Shut :: Shut (a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g..

Evangelical :: Evangelical (a.) Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion..

S :: S () the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it

Nonsonant :: Nonsonant (n.) A nonsonant or nonvocal consonant.

Altisonous :: Altisonous (a.) Altisonant.

Resonance :: Resonance (n.) The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

Concord :: Concord (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

Rightful :: Rightful (a.) Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause..

J :: "J () J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably..

Concordant :: Concordant (a.) Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant.

Semivowel :: Semivowel (n.) A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y..

Sonant :: Sonant (n.) A sonant letter.

Lene :: Lene (n.) Any one of the lene consonants, as p, k, or t (or Gr. /, /, /)..

A :: A (prep.) In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging..