Sonority

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The quality or state of being sonorous; resonance.
  • n. A sound.
  • n. Linguistics The degree to which a speech sound is like a vowel. Plosives have the least sonority and vowels have the most.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The property of being sonorous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Sonorousness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
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    timber    tone    timbre    quality   
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