Vowel \Vow"el\, n. [F. voyelle, or an OF. form without y, L.
vocalis (sc. littera), from vocalis sounding, from vox,
vocis, a voice, sound. See Vocal.]
(Phon.)
A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by
resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each
case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character
or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a
consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without
vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind
of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or
character which represents such a sound. See Guide to
Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5, 146-149.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the English language, the written vowels are a, e,
i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. The spoken vowels are
much more numerous.
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Close vowel. See under Close, a.
Vowel point. See under Point, n.
[1913 Webster]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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126 Moby Thesaurus words for "vowel":
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apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated,
assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central,
cerebral, check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal,
continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal,
epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal,
glottalization, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial,
labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax,
light, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid,
modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute,
muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal,
palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch,
pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, retroflex, rounded,
segmental phoneme, semivowel, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound,
stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus,
syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic,
transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded,
unstressed, velar, vocable, vocal, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced,
voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowellike, weak,
wide
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Vowel \Vow"el\, n. [F. voyelle, or an OF. form without y, L.
vocalis (sc. littera), from vocalis sounding, from vox,
vocis, a voice, sound. See Vocal.]
(Phon.)
A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by
resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each
case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character
or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a
consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without
vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind
of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or
character which represents such a sound. See Guide to
Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5, 146-149.
Note: In the English language, the written vowels are a, e,
i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. The spoken vowels are
much more numerous.
Close vowel. See under Close, a.
Vowel point. See under Point, n.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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