'Sonant' definitions:
Definition of 'sonant'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Sonant'
From: GCIDE
- Sonant \So"nant\, a. [L. sonans, -antis, p. pr. of sonare to sound. See Sound a noise.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Phonetics) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; vocal; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- said 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sonant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulate,
- 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,
- oral,
- 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,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- spoken,
- stop,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- viva,
- vocable,
- vocal,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide