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sibilant

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1. sibilant - Noun

2. sibilant - Adjective

3. sibilant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.

A sibiliant letter.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct. Christine Baranski

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat. Walt Whitman

Although less common, some contemporary writers still follow the older practice of omitting the extra s in all cases ending with a sibilant, but usually not when written -x or -xe. Source: Internet

Extending this approach to cover the Samoyedic languages suggests affinity with Ugric, resulting in the aforementioned East Uralic grouping, as it also shares the same sibilant developments. Source: Internet

Despite this variation, there are some common characteristics to nearly all of the dialects of New Latin, for instance: * The use of a sibilant fricative or affricate in place of a stop for the letters c and sometimes g, when preceding a front vowel. Source: Internet

“Char,” says the man, but he chomps down on the sibilant, turning it into a short, gruff rush of air pushed through closed teeth: Char, charred, the dragon that doesn’t breathe fire but leaves things blackened and burnt anyway. Source: Internet

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