Sibilant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, characterized by, or producing a hissing sound like that of (s) or (sh): the sibilant consonants; a sibilant bird call.
  • n. A sibilant speech sound, such as English (s), (sh), (z), or (zh).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Characterized by a hissing sound such as the "s" or "sh" in sash or surge.
  • n. A hissing sound such as the 's' or 'sh' in 'sash' or 'surge'.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Hissing; making or having a hissing sound: as, s and z are sibilant letters.
  • n. An alphabetic sound that is uttered with hissing, as s and z, and sh and zh (in azure, etc.), also ch (tsh) and j (dzh).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
  • n. a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
  • Equivalent
    soft   
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    sibilantly    shibilant   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    breathy    guttural    whispery    raucous    wordless    raspy    drawn-out    tinny    plaintive    husky