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sonorant
[suh-nawr-uhnt, -nohr-, soh-]
noun
a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).
a speech sound characterized by relatively free air passage through some channel, as a vowel, semivowel, liquid, or nasal.
adjective
of, relating to, or having the properties of a sonorant.
sonorant
/ ˈɒəəԳ /
noun
one of the frictionless continuants or nasals (l, r, m, n, ŋ ) having consonantal or vocalic functions depending on its situation within the syllable
either of the two consonants represented in English orthography by w or y and regarded as either consonantal or vocalic articulations of the vowels iː and uː
Other 51Թ Forms
- nonsonorant adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sonorant1
Example Sentences
Mallinckrodt announced in April that it plans to change its name to Sonorant Therapeutics, spinning off ‘Mallinckrodt Inc.’ as a separate company for its generics business.
Hannaham’s horrifying and sonorant account of a widow and her son joins Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House, Mat Johnson’s Loving Day, Tracy K. Smith’s Ordinary Light, Nell Zink’s Mislaid, and a rich slew of others in its attention not just to what seems irrevocable about blackness in the United States, but what seems fluid.
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- loud
- resounding
- roaring
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- strident
- throbbing
- thundering
- thunderous
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