Crossword-Solution: SONANT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Sonant | a. | Of or pertaining to sound; sounding. |
| Sonant | a. | Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. |
| Sonant | n. | A sonant letter. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| SONANT | anagram | ANTONS, SANTON, STANNO |
We have 19 clues for the answer “SONANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like "n" and "r," in phonetics | 1 answer |
| voiced sound able to form a syllable or syllable nucleus | 1 answer |
| Voiced, to a phonetician | 1 answer |
| Voiced, in phonetics | 1 answer |
| Voiced, in linguistics | 1 answer |
| Vocalized in speech | 1 answer |
| VOICED speech sound | 1 answer |
| SYLLABIC sound | 1 answer |
| Noise-conveying | 1 answer |
| Making noises | 1 answer |
| A voiced speech sound. | 1 answer |
| Having sound | 2 answers |
| SOUND (pert. to) | 7 answers |
| A SPEECH SOUND ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND FROM THE VOCAL CORDS | 11 answers |
| Voiced | 17 answers |
| Vocal | 28 answers |
| sounding | 30 answers |
| Speech sound | 33 answers |
| audible | 52 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EEN
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with SONANT (5)
The vowel sound is so intimately linked with the consonant--the con-sonant, implying this intimate relation in its very name--that it seemed extremely difficult to give it individual recognition.
Here the Apologue found its populariser in Αἴσωδπος, Æsop, whose name, involved in myth, possibly connects with Αιθίοψ:— “Æsopus et Aithiops idem sonant” says the sage.
She had diverted her mind from the pressure upon it, by this colloquy with a looking-glass, and gave herself a great rapture by running up notes to this theme:-- "No, no, no, no, no!--nothing! nothing!" Clear, full, sonant notes; the notes of her true voice.
She had diverted her mind from the pressure upon it, by this colloquy with a looking-glass, and gave herself a great rapture by running up notes to this theme:-- “No, no, no, no, no!--nothing! nothing!” Clear, full, sonant notes; the notes of her true voice.
Now, while Bellona rageth heere and there, Thick stormes of bullets ran like winters haile, And shiuered launces darke the troubled aire; Pede pes & cuspide cuspis, Arma sonant armis vir petiturque viro; On euery side drop captaines to the ground, And souldiers, some ill-maimde, some slaine outright: Heere falls a body sundred from his head; There legs and armes lye bleeding on the grasse, Mingled with weapons and vnboweled steeds, That scattering ouer-spread the purple plaine.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 45 times in crossword archives (1954–2023).