vowels

Cultural  

1. Letters of the alphabet that generally stand for sounds made with an open or partially open mouth: A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y (as in style). (Compare consonants.)

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Example Sentences

To go American, Mielewska said it's all about getting the Rs and the vowels right.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Its opening poem, “Digging,” feels earthbound with its low-pitched vowels: “Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Her delivery tends toward the soft and musical, and that she is wearing her own accent, which, to a Californian’s ear, plays charming variations on vowels, is all to the good.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025

The asset manager rebranded from Standard Life Aberdeen three years ago, shortening its name and dropping the vowels.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2024

Maine speech is very like that in West Country England, the double vowels pronounced as they are in Anglo- Saxon, but the resemblance is doubly strong on Deer Isle.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck