| 单词 | sonorant |
| 释义 | sonorant[ suh-nawr-uhnt, -nohr-, soh- ] / səˈnɔr ənt, -ˈnoʊr-, soʊ- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR sonorant ON THESAURUS.COM nouna voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w). a speech sound characterized by relatively free air passage through some channel, as a vowel, semivowel, liquid, or nasal.Compare obstruent. adjectiveof, relating to, or having the properties of a sonorant. Origin of sonorant<Latin sonōr- (stem of sonor) sound, noise + -ant; see sonorous OTHER WORDS FROM sonorantnon·so·no·rant, adjective, nounWords nearby sonorantsonography, sonoluminescence, Sonoma, sonometer, Sonora, sonorant, sonority, sonorous, sonorous rale, Sons and Lovers, sonship Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for sonorantsonorant / (ˈsɒnərənt) / noun phoneticsone of the frictionless continuants or nasals (l, r, m, n, ŋ) having consonantal or vocalic functions depending on its situation within the syllable either of the two consonants represented in English orthography by w or y and regarded as either consonantal or vocalic articulations of the vowels iː and uː Word Origin for sonorantfrom Latin sonor a noise + -ant Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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