| Main Entry: | sonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vocal |
Synonyms: |
articulate, articulated, choral, expressed, intonated, lyric, modulated, operatic, oral, phonetic, phonic, pronounced, put into words, said, singing, spoken, sung, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocalic, vocalized, voiced, vowel |
| Main Entry: | oral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
Synonyms: |
articulate, ejaculatory, lingual, narrated, phonated, phonetic, phonic, recounted, related, said, sonant, sounded, told, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, voiced, word-of-mouth |
| Notes: | oral applies only to the spoken word but verbal can describe both spoken and written; oral means 'by mouth' or 'by spoken word' and verbal means 'written or spoken word' - so an oral agreement is spoken but a verbal agreement can be spoken or written |
Antonyms: |
printed, written |
| Main Entry: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | by word of mouth |
Synonyms: |
announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, phonic, put into words, said, sonant, told, traditional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, voiced |
Antonyms: |
heard, written |
| Main Entry: | vocal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
Synonyms: |
articulate, articulated, choral, expressed, intonated, lyric, modulated, operatic, oral, phonetic, phonic, pronounced, put into words, said, singing, sonant, sung, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocalic, vocalized, voiced, vowel |
Antonyms: |
written |
| Main Entry: | speech sound |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sound unit of speech |
Synonyms: |
affricate, click, consonant, diphthong, fricative, implosive, liquid, phone, phonetic entity, phonetic unit, plosive, sibilant, sonant, spirant, syllable, vocable |