vowel
A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral…A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
» This is a vowel.
Это гласная.
Meaning
2 sensesA sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.
Vokal, Vokallaut, Selbstlaut
гла́сныйglásnyj
голосни́йholosnýj
A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely).
The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
The word cwm, borrowed from Welsh, is an example of the letter w serving as a vowel in English.
Vokal, Vokalbuchstabe
гла́снаяglásnaja
голосна́holosná
a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel
Examples
58 sentencesThis is a vowel.
ruЭто гласная.
A schwa represents a neutral vowel.
Знаком "шва" позначають нейтральний голосний.
deEin Schwa stellt einen neutralen Vokal dar.
Your alphasyllabary needs better vowel marks.
His name starts with a vowel.
ruЕго имя начинается на гласную.
Adjectives end in the vowel "a".
ruПрилагательные оканчиваются на гласную "a".
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 2
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By meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelFrom Middle English vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.
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Forms
plural: vowelsSynonyms
1 synonyms- a speech sound made with the vocal tract open:vowel sound