sonant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sonant	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sonant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sonant adj produced with vibration of the vocal cords; "a frequently voiced opinion"; "voiced consonants such as `b' and `g' and `z'"; Synonym(s): voiced, sonant, soft Antonym(s): hard, surd, unvoiced, voiceless n a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords Synonym(s): sonant, voiced sound
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.