Meaning

2 senses
  1. A sonorant vowel or consonant.

  2. A sonorant vowel or consonant.

    (Indo European studies)Any of the Proto-Indo-European consonants *l, *m, *n, *r, *w (*u̯), and *y (*i̯) or its descendants in an Indo-European language, capable of syllabic pronunciation in the zero grade and represented by the cover symbol ⟨R⟩ in structural notation.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Our group played guitars while the others randomly hit resonant objects.

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  2. Tom's deep voice is so resonant and mellifluous that I could spend hours listening to him read aloud from the phone book.

    deToms tiefe Stimme ist so resonant und wohlklingend, dass ich ihm stundenlang zuhören könnte, selbst wenn er aus dem Telefonbuch vorläse.

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  3. And then suddenly, in the very dead of the night, there came a sound to my ears, clear, resonant, and unmistakable.

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Origin

Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

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Forms

plural: resonants
Singularresonant
Pluralresonants

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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