- 1(phonetics) a speech sound made by completely or partly stopping the flow of air being breathed out through the mouth See related entries: Phonetics
- 2a letter of the alphabet that represents a consonant sound, for example ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’, ‘f’, etc. See related entries: Phonetics compare vowel Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘letter representing a consonant’): via Old French from Latin consonare ‘sound together’, from con- ‘with’ + sonare ‘to sound’ (from sonus ‘sound’). Wordfinderpronunciationcluster, consonant, diphthong, elide, intonation, phonetics, pronunciation, stress, tone, voiced
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