vowel
Noun
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A speech sound made with the vocal tract open (synset 107127258)
hypernym: phone, sound, speech sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some languagehyponym:
- ablaut - a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)
- diphthong - a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another
- schwa, shwa - a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
- stem vowel, thematic vowel - a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection
synonym: vowel sound -
A letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel (synset 107129420)
hypernym: alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speechhyponym: vowel point - a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel
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