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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