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spirant

DEFINITIONS OF: spirant

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n a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract

Synonyms:
fricative, fricative consonant
Types:
sibilant, sibilant consonant
a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
Type of:
continuant, continuant consonant
consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract

adj of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

Synonyms:
continuant, fricative, sibilant, strident
soft
(of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
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