Semivowel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A sound that has the quality of one of the high vowels, as (ē) or (o͞o), and that functions as a consonant before or after vowels, as the initial sounds of yell and well and the final sounds of coy and cow. Also called glide.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel
  • n. A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y.
  • n. The sign or letter representing such a sound.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A half-vowel; a sound partaking of the nature of both a vowel and a consonant; an articulation lying near the line of division between vowel and consonant, and so capable of being used with either value; also, the sign representing such a sound.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    phone    speech sound    sound   
    Cross Reference
    consonant   
    Hyponym
    palatal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    glide    semiconsonant   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mid-to-late    non-fermi    pumpable    slurries    biological-agent   
     
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