'Labial' definitions:
Definition of 'labial'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to the lips of the mouth; "labial stops"
adjective
Relating to or near the female labium
noun
A consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips [syn: labial consonant, labial]
Definition of 'Labial'
From: GCIDE
- Labial \La"bi*al\, a. [LL. labialis, fr. L. labium lip: cf. F. labial. See Lip.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mus.) Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Phonetics) (a) Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w. (b) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as [=oo] (f[=oo]d), [=o] ([=o]ld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and ["o], ["u] in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 11, 178. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial palpi of insects. See Labium. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Labial'
From: GCIDE
- Labial \La"bi*al\, n.
- 1. (Phonetics) A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mus.) An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'labial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- 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,
- labialization,
- labiate,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- lipped,
- 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,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
Words containing 'Labial'
- Labialism,
- Labialization,
- Labialize,
- Labially,
- labial artery,
- labial consonant,
- labial pipe,
- labial stop,
- labial vein,
- anterior labial veins,
- inferior labial artery,
- inferior labial vein,
- posterior labial veins,
- superior labial artery,
- superior labial vein,
- venae labiales anteriores,
- venae labiales posteriores