affricative
affricative · affricatives
An affricateAn affricate.
Meaning
1 sensesAn affricate.
More definitions
- a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as ‘ch’ in ‘chair’ and ‘j’ in ‘joy’)
Forms
plural: affricatives| Singular | affricative |
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regular
Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as ‘ch’ in ‘chair’ and ‘j’ in ‘joy’):affricateaffricate consonant
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.