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sonorant
[ suh-nawr-uhnt, -nohr-, soh- ]
noun
- a speech sound characterized by relatively free air passage through some channel, as a vowel, semivowel, liquid, or nasal. Compare obstruent.
adjective
- of, relating to, or having the properties of a sonorant.
sonorant
/ ˈsɒnərənt /
noun
- one of the frictionless continuants or nasals (l, r, m, n, ŋ ) having consonantal or vocalic functions depending on its situation within the syllable
- either of the two consonants represented in English orthography by w or y and regarded as either consonantal or vocalic articulations of the vowels iː and uː
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- nonso·norant adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sonorant1
from Latin sonor a noise + -ant
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Example Sentences
Mallinckrodt announced in April that it plans to change its name to Sonorant Therapeutics, spinning off ‘Mallinckrodt Inc.’ as a separate company for its generics business.
From Washington Post
Hannaham’s horrifying and sonorant account of a widow and her son joins Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House, Mat Johnson’s Loving Day, Tracy K. Smith’s Ordinary Light, Nell Zink’s Mislaid, and a rich slew of others in its attention not just to what seems irrevocable about blackness in the United States, but what seems fluid.
From Slate
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