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单词 sibilant
释义 sibilant
 —sibilance, sibilancy,  n.   —sibilantly,  adv.  
 /sib"euh leuhnt/,  adj.  
  1. hissing.
  2.  Phonet.   characterized by a hissing sound; noting sounds like those spelled with s in this /dhis/, rose /rohz/, pressure /presh"euhr/, pleasure /plezh"euhr/, and certain similar uses of ch, sh, z, zh, etc.
  n.  
  3.  Phonet.   a sibilant consonant.
 [1660-70; < L sibilant- (s. of sibilans), prp. of sibilare to hiss), equiv. to sibil(us) a hissing, whistling (of imit. orig.) + -ant- -ANT]
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