Definition of sonant Sonant

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We found 9 definitions of sonant from 5 different sources.

What does sonant mean?

Noun Plural: sonants
sonant - a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords
		voiced sound
		speech sound, phone, sound (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

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sonant (a.)
Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
sonant (a.)
Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.
sonant (n.)
A sonant letter.

sonant
sō′nant, adj. sounding: pertaining to sound: uttered with sound, instead of breath alone, as certain alphabetic sounds.—ns. Sō′nance (Shak.), a call; Sō′nancy, sonant character. [L. sonans, -antis, pr.p. of sonāre, to sound.]